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uponit7771

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Fri Jul 24, 2015, 10:42 PM

Jul 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/20/sandra-bland-arrested-officer-annoyed-smoking

Texas police have released video taken from inside the county jail during the last minutes of Sandra Bland’s life as activists claimed that the traffic stop that led to her imprisonment escalated into a confrontation because a trooper was angry that she was smoking.

The footage is three hours long but does not provide a clear view of cell 95 at the Waller county jail, where officials say the 28-year-old was found hanged on 13 July, three days after she was arrested for alleged assault on a public servant.

The camera is motion-activated and stops recording after 15 seconds without detectable movement, according to authorities, meaning there is more than nine minutes of time unrecorded. The inside of cell 95, at the end of a hallway and in the top right corner of the picture, is not visible. Officials said that the tape showed there was no movement down the hallway to Bland’s cell for the 90 minutes prior to her body being discovered.

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Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi: Sandra Bland Was Murdered [View all] laserhaas Jul 2015 OP

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