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."
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so a white woman wouldn’t have died when she tried to commit suicide ?
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.
Who says white women don’t do drugs. Bernie is a racist.
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.
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......
Current headline on the Daily News
Does Waller County not have CCTV of its cells like every other jail in America?
What could be more amusing than an old, White fogey from Vermont pitching for the Black vote.
Bail was set at $500, and none of her friends and family stepped forward.
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!
And coming to Irving in 2016: the flameout of the Clock Boy lawsuit.
He is probably right, a white woman most likely would have not gotten herself locked up by being such an asshole.
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...
The Amazing Bernie: the seer sees and knows all. I’ll bet that he can read palms, too.
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