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laserhaas

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Fri Jul 24, 2015, 06:14 PM Jul 2015

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi: Sandra Bland Was Murdered [View all]

Matt Taibbi, of Rolling Stone Magazine, though being criticized in the past for jumping on a story too quickly, has just titled his most recent item - today - "Sandra Bland Was Murdered".


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Is the Death of Sandra Bland is the Cops Fault?
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Taibbi states the following remarks and concludes, (as does many of U.S.) that no matter how you slice it up and what the left over evidences may show (remember - they had plenty of time before national outcry - to clean things up, such as the edited dashcam recording), the fact of the matter is Sandra Bland was arrested due to officers violation of policies

and she is now DEAD!

[font color=white] ----------------------------------[/font]As Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi puts it;

So news broke yesterday that authorities in Waller County, Texas, have "full faith" that Sandra Bland committed suicide. They said there was "no evidence of a struggle" on the body of the 28-year-old African-American woman who was ludicrously jailed last week after an alleged lane change violation.


Is the only thing required, to prove no foul play, is the fact that the death is ruled as "no struggle"?

Currently, there's suppose to be a Texas Ranger and FBI independent investigation and (hopefully) autopsy of Sandra Bland. Meanwhile, Matt Taibbi continues with these remarks;

In related news, the Texas Department of Safety ruled that Brian Encina, the officer who arrested Bland, pulled her from her car, and threatened her with a Taser, had merely violated the state's "courtesy policy." The state said there was "no evidence" yet of criminal behavior on Encina's part.

So barring something unexpected, we know now how this is going to play out in the media.

Many news outlets are going to engage in an indirect version of the usual blame-the-victim game by emphasizing the autopsy finding of suicide, questioning Bland's mental health history, and by highlighting the reports of marijuana found in her system.



All those reflections and the pic above, can be found in greater detail at...

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/sandra-bland-was-murdered-20150724#ixzz3gqgsP1Pc
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Sandra Bland Made a Video Warning that

Surrendering to police - can still get you killed!
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As verbatim, just months before her untimely demise, Sandy Bland put up comments on her page. She stated this, in defense of "Black Lives Matter" - ( at time-stamp 2:34 of the 4 minute video) - that;


"you can stand there - surrender to the cops - and still be killed"


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There are many questions we all have. Such as - if, as the police claim, she made notes of being medicated and previous attempts at suicide - why wasn't she on suicide watch?

Where is the clean - totally untouched - versions of the video dashcam and all her time in the jail?

What is the name of the judge and prosecutor who kept her in jail?

Why was the 1st story we received that she hung herself and now it turns out to be a trashbag?

Does anyone - other than the authorities in Texas - actually believe this is Sandra Bland's fault?

I'm with Taibbi - Sandy's death is the authorities fault; and Black Lives don't seem to matter there.

Just sayin.....

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What a beautiful smile. tazkcmo Jul 2015 #1
Without that DWB stop Warpy Jul 2015 #2
Concur. And, as Taibbi points out - if not for the escalation by the officer laserhaas Jul 2015 #3
Trash bag? In a JAIL Cell? BWAAAAAH! ghostsinthemachine Jul 2015 #4
Been meaning to ask...are we talking full size heavy garbage bag here? or waste paper basket size? Ken Burch Jul 2015 #9
Good questions. laserhaas Jul 2015 #13
Doesn't matter ghostsinthemachine Jul 2015 #14
Well yes, but proving that is isn't even possible for someone to hang herself with a trash bag... Ken Burch Jul 2015 #15
How determined does one have to be to hang themselves (from low orbit)? laserhaas Jul 2015 #20
Could the arrest have been payback for that video? Ken Burch Jul 2015 #5
You most certainly do raise a compelling question for investigation. laserhaas Jul 2015 #6
Marijuana normally doesn't produce aggression, that's true. Ken Burch Jul 2015 #12
Well, he threatened to "light her up" at the arrest. MoonRiver Jul 2015 #8
There's 9 mins of tape missing from her jail cell camera also, this whole thing stinks uponit7771 Jul 2015 #7
Where do you have that info from 'uponit7771'? laserhaas Jul 2015 #11
If so, the missing 9 minutes could be crucial. n/t. Ken Burch Jul 2015 #16
We already know that the dashcam tape was edited. laserhaas Jul 2015 #17
Sounds like they "fixed the glitch"-in the veterinary sense. Ken Burch Jul 2015 #18
EEEWWWW.... I hate that issue.... spade/neuter - laserhaas Jul 2015 #19
uh, it's "spayed", not "spade". Ken Burch Jul 2015 #21
Link inside with quotes uponit7771 Jul 2015 #30
Public police cameras should be connected to live Internet feeds... Volaris Jul 2015 #34
Great Idea (like Police scanners of old) laserhaas Jul 2015 #36
Why in the hell are we even debating this? Aerows Jul 2015 #10
Yup. It's that simple. hifiguy Jul 2015 #28
Hanging, in a jail, doesn't make sense. Where are the noises everyone would have heard. laserhaas Jul 2015 #22
know what? even if she did commit suicide, they're still responsible 0rganism Jul 2015 #23
Totally agree; but we all know that "once your in - anything happening to you - isn't a sin" laserhaas Jul 2015 #24
As you can expect, the RS comments are disgusting Nevernose Jul 2015 #25
Worse - they are blocking every single one of my comments - via Disqus laserhaas Jul 2015 #37
why didn't she have a lawyer KT2000 Jul 2015 #26
A Judge in the case was saying bad stuff on Twitter and laserhaas Jul 2015 #38
I don't have a lot of money to throw around, BUT hifiguy Jul 2015 #27
Of course. I'm not seeing a reason to believe anything else. TheKentuckian Jul 2015 #29
Taibbi's right, and some of DUs cop fetishists need to get alcibiades_mystery Jul 2015 #31
I was appalled when the DA came out yesterday and divulged really personal stuff about Sandra. AtomicKitten Jul 2015 #32
yup...Detective Rules 101 laserhaas Jul 2015 #33
Omg... They actually said something about all that?! What bastards uponit7771 Jul 2015 #35
Even if she hung herself... Charles de Gaudless Jul 2015 #39
Agree.... this guys abuse was "cause and effect" laserhaas Jul 2015 #40
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