Tell that to Reverend Jim.
Posted on 07/23/2015 12:22:16 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Sandra Bland, the black woman found hanging dead in a Texas jail days after a traffic stop, smoked or possibly swallowed a large amount of marijuana while in custody, her family's attorney reported the district attorney as saying.
Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis made the disclosure in a text message to attorney Cannon Lambert, who has called the state's autopsy on the Chicago-area woman defective, Lambert said.
"Looking at the autopsy results and toxicology, it appears she swallowed a large quantity of marijuana or smoked it in the jail," Mathis said in a text message to Lambert that the attorney provided to Reuters.
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After the incident escalated into an altercation between her and the trooper, Bland was taken into custody and charged with assaulting an officer. She was found hanging in her jail cell on July 13 with a plastic trash bag around her neck.
Her death was originally ruled a suicide, although officials have said they are handling it as a murder probe.
According to Lambert, Mathis said the state needs to conduct a second autopsy on Bland, whose body was returned to the Chicago area on Wednesday in preparation for a funeral on Saturday.
"The family's confidence is shaken by the continued discrepancies that are surfacing," Lambert said in an email to Reuters.
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One article said the plastic was a liner from the garbage can in the cell.
True. Sounds like amateur hour for the local police force, and perhaps no cavity search, although she had been there for three days before she died. Also appears they let her have her mobile phone in the cell with her, at least at some point.
They're saying it was while in jail. She was there for three days.
“Another senseless, drug related death.” - The Ex-Police (SNL)
Thanks. I had wondered why she was still in jail and not able to post bond.
Could be (pure speculation!) — even my family won’t help me —> despair.
A drug mule? For marijuana? Really?
Cop: "Step out of the car"
Cop: "I'll light you up."
Please don't waste my time with made-up Al Sharpton crap. Thanks.
When did that become a crime?
eating marijuana doesn’t make it psychoactive at all. it has to be heated to a certain degree or dissolved into an oil or other fat for the human body to get high from it, because THC isn’t water-soluble. If you could get high from just straight eating it, people would be doing that.
Tell that to Reverend Jim.
...and when she responded belligerently, he gave her an order to exit the vehicle, which she declined to comply with. There are consequences to refusing to comply.
hair tests can go longer than a month. if you had the hair while you did the drug, there are traces of it.
marijuana will be present in a bloodstream long after any effects that the person can feel.
That’s not a crime.
Assaulting a police officer, however, is.
She was pulled over for a turn signal or something, wasn’t she? The cop seemed like he really wanted her to go to jail, in my opinion.
No. Stomach acid activates THC.
Look at the videos. The police officer told her she was under arrest before she got out of the car and before the "assault" was committed. What was she being arrested for if not just being a mouthy, black female?
Chances are, if you tested many of us out there we’d historically test positive somehow for cannibus.
But were we arrested, we would not hang ourselves.
Chances are, if you tested many of us out there we’d historically test positive somehow for cannibus.
But were we arrested, we would not hang ourselves.
She was not arrested before she got out of the car.
She was being lawfully detained because she was posing a threat.
Texas isn`t too far from Colorado, where was she coming from, and where was she going?
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