Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Sanders: Sandra Bland would be alive 'if she were a white woman'
The Hill ^ | 12-22-2015 | MARK HENSCH

Posted on 12/22/2015 5:17:52 AM PST by Citizen Zed

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said late Monday that Sandra Bland would not have died while in police custody in Texas if she were a white woman.

"Sandra Bland should not have died while in police custody," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a statement posted on Twitter.

"There's no doubt in my mind that she, like too many African Americans who die in police custody, would be alive today if she were a white woman," he continued.

"My thoughts are with her family and loved ones tonight. We need to reform a very broken criminal justice system."

Sanders' remarks follow a grand's decision Monday night to refuse returning indictments relating to Bland's death earlier this year.

Bland, 28, was found hanged in her jail cell in Waller County, Texas on July 13. She was arrested following a confrontation with a police officer over a minor traffic stop. Video has since emerged of Bland arguing with Officer Brian Encinia over her alleged failure to signal she was changing lanes.

The Waller County coroner has since ruled her death a suicide, drawing angry skepticism from family members who point to her budding career as a lawyer.

Sanders has repeatedly condemned the incident while Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton earlier this year described the incident as "particularly tragic."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2016election; berniesanders; election2016; racemonger; rickperry; sanders; sandrabland; tedcruz; texas; vermont
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-35 last
To: Citizen Zed

so a white woman wouldn’t have died when she tried to commit suicide ?


21 posted on 12/22/2015 6:47:34 AM PST by stylin19a
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Bland was in jail for 3 days and her family in Chicago, I think, did not come to her rescue and get her out. Maybe she hung herself because she was so disappointed with her family. I think those people are now suing for millions.


22 posted on 12/22/2015 6:57:57 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Who says white women don’t do drugs. Bernie is a racist.


23 posted on 12/22/2015 7:07:04 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Somebody should ask Bernie the nut what he thinks would happen if an Attorney General of a minor US state was to be accused of raping a woman - and no charges were brought, and the accused rapist’s own wife assisted in trying to keep the alleged rape from coming out. Then we should ask Hillary! what she thins about that scenario.


24 posted on 12/22/2015 7:13:35 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

American people really do not have a use for another race baiter. One Divider-in-Chief should have set us free a good hundred years......


25 posted on 12/22/2015 7:30:18 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3369394/Moment-cop-shoots-dead-mother-three-toddler-son-misses-family-s-German-Shepherd-dog.html

Current headline on the Daily News


26 posted on 12/22/2015 7:36:19 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Does Waller County not have CCTV of its cells like every other jail in America?


27 posted on 12/22/2015 8:20:22 AM PST by Boogieman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

What could be more amusing than an old, White fogey from Vermont pitching for the Black vote.


28 posted on 12/22/2015 9:18:46 AM PST by Jack Hammer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ditter

Bail was set at $500, and none of her friends and family stepped forward.


29 posted on 12/22/2015 9:29:47 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Night Hides Not

That is what I heard too, family did not come to her rescue and she offed herself but they came through threatening to sue! Give us money!!!!

The police have not been blamed, thankfully!


30 posted on 12/22/2015 9:53:24 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Ditter

And coming to Irving in 2016: the flameout of the Clock Boy lawsuit.


31 posted on 12/22/2015 10:30:06 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

He is probably right, a white woman most likely would have not gotten herself locked up by being such an asshole.


32 posted on 12/23/2015 7:13:03 AM PST by weezel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

I'm Bernie Sanders, and I Approve This Message:

Garbage In, Garbage Out Garbage In, Garbage Out

33 posted on 12/23/2015 12:03:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Bernie comes out of the Hyde Park Chicago brand of Leon Trotsky Socialism... It’s the real deal... communism. Hopefully he’s moderated over the years...


34 posted on 12/23/2015 12:54:45 PM PST by GOPJ (No one in power is on our side.No one in power is on our side. Absolutely no one. freeper marron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

The Amazing Bernie: the seer sees and knows all. I’ll bet that he can read palms, too.


35 posted on 12/23/2015 1:03:00 PM PST by windsorknot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-35 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson