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At 28, Sandra Bland had the world in front of her.
Nov. 30, 2018
World & Nation
Perjury charges levied against the Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland during a confrontational traffic stop last summer are merely “a slap on the wrist,” Bland’s family said Thursday.
Jan. 7, 2016
Sandra Bland, whose death while in a Texas jail cell set off protests, had marijuana in her system, officials said Monday in releasing a toxicology report on her death.
July 27, 2015
Sandra Bland, 28, of Naperville, was found dead in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, after her July 10 arrest.
July 20, 2015
The Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland after a confrontation that began with a traffic stop was once cautioned about “unprofessional conduct” in a 2014 incident while he was still a probationary trooper, according to his personnel file.
Aug. 1, 2015
A grand jury in Texas has decided no felony was committed by the sheriff’s office or jailers in connection with the death last summer of Sandra Bland, in effect ruling it a suicide, prosecutors said Monday.
Dec. 21, 2015
July 16, 2015
Officially, the legal issue at hand was a misdemeanor charge of perjury.
March 22, 2016
Cellphone video recorded by Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail following a confrontational 2015 traffic stop, shows for the first time her perspective as a white state trooper draws his stun gun and points it at close range while ordering her out of her car.
May 7, 2019
The autopsy of Sandra Bland, whose death touched off a furor among activists after her body was found in a Texas jail cell, showed that her injuries were consistent with suicide and she did not have wounds indicating she was the victim of a violent homicide, officials said Thursday.
July 23, 2015