Prosecutor says no indictment in Sandra Bland jail death
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A prosecutor says a grand jury has decided that neither sheriff's officials nor jailers committed a crime in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Texas county jail last summer, but has not yet determined whether the state trooper who arrested her should face charges...
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A prosecutor says a grand jury has decided that neither sheriff’s officials nor jailers committed a crime in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Texas county jail last summer, but has not yet determined whether the state trooper who arrested her should face charges.
Prosecutor Darrell Jordan said Monday the Waller County grand jury will return in January to consider whether to indict the trooper who arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland in July.
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The Chicago-area woman was pulled over July 10 for making an improper lane change. Bland was taken in handcuffs to the county jail in Hempstead, about 50 miles northwest of Houston, and remained there when she couldn’t raise about $500 for bail.
She was discovered dead three days later, hanging from a cell partition.
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