Posted on 07/22/2015 2:56:15 PM PDT by rickyrikardo
Review: Gustave Caillebotte at the National Gallery U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE Sheriff Says Sandra Bland Told Jailer of a Previous Suicide Attempt Tanya Basu @mstanyabasu 5:14 PM ET
Bland indicated she had attempted suicide at least once in the past year
Sandra Bland—the African-American woman whose mysterious and sudden death in a Waller County, Tex. jail last week after a traffic stop has incited controversy—told jailers that she had previously attempted suicide, according to information from a closed meeting with Waller County officials on Tuesday.
On a form, Bland indicated that she had attempted suicide over the past year, apparently due to the loss of a baby. At the time of her arrest, however, Bland indicated that she did not feel suicidal. Her mental history remains “a little bit fuzzy,” Rep. Sylvester Turner told The Houston Chronicle.
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Thanks for the observations!
Very important!
I doubt it. But if you had argued and fought with him, you would have been arrested regardless of your color.
You might be right...especially “fighting” with him, but why don’t I have the right to argue with him? Is this a totalitarian country? If I’ve broken no laws and not laid a finger on the cop nor uttered any threats, where’s my first amendment rights...no matter what race I may be?
I’ve never had a security alarm system, and about the only image I have of them is what they show in movies and tv shows. If your home alarm goes off, and you’re not at home, does the security company automatically call the police to have them check it out? If so, why did your neighbor call you to check it out?
I highly suggest one. I came home on my lunch break once and realized I was out of bread. Turned around after having my hand on the doorknob. They were in the house at that moment. I got one the next day. Didn’t want my wife to walk in on bad guys.
” If I was ever pulled over for not using my signal...OK, I’d shut up and listen to the MF’er give me his power tripper lecture and then thank him for the citation and be on my way. Don’t cops have bigger fish to fry than pulling over people for not using their signals? I’m starting to understand why minorities are afraid of these guys. They may as well be dressed in white robes. Why should she have had to get out of her car..for what reason? We don’t live in a police state...yet.”
Black or white arguing with a cop is a losing proposition even if you are in the right. The cop is not going to back down and if he decides to arrest you he will or kill you trying. Some people, especially certain races, never seem to learn this.
There was fault on both sides, imho.
The lady is a known activist, from what I have read. Perhaps trying to create an “event”?
The cop had an attitude.
But that being said...I have been pulled over by cops and just did what they said....and haven’t been to jail yet. And some of those cops look like my grandchildren.
I live in an apartment on the third floor in a 4-building apartment complex in a small city in central NY State. When I rented it 15 years ago, I took it because it was on the third floor, nobody over me. I was still working in NY State Corrections at the time, and figured if anyone was going to break in, they’d go for the basement or the first floor apartments. Why climb three flights of stairs to steal from anyone? There’s no balconies, and no access into my apartment other than my front door. There’s never been any break-ins in the complex since I’ve lived here. I always double-lock my door whenever I go out, and it’s always double-locked with chain lock once I’m home. My sense of security is still as heightened as it was when I worked Corrections. A security alarm system would be a waste of money for my small place.
SJB, having watched the video from the start, this officer was very professional with the previous stop and with her AT FIRST.
Unfortunately, as is prone to happen with some folks who wear the race chip on their shoulder like it’s everyday jewelry, she did not even give the officer time to say he was giving her a warning, rather than a ticket.
Some police departments encourage the officers to let the motorist vent some, he was doing that. However, he was well within his legal authority to demand that she step from the car as she was still detained. He would still have to articulate why he did it. His mistake was not clearly articulating to her that if she did not step from the vehicle he would arrest her for failure to comply with/obey the legal and lawful order of a police officer.
He did call for backup which was good, he did call again saying he had a resisting, that too was proper.
Extracting a motorist is tricky, because you can’t use mace, they are effectively blinded and will drive off, you can’t use a Taser deployment because they lose the muscular control to operate the vehicle if it happens to be in drive. Thus it’s almost always hands on if they won’t get out voluntarily.
He could have used the drive stun component of the taser to force her out. He did move her to the sidewalk, you don’t want to arrest or do any business between the cars.
Ideally, the officer should have just interrupted her and said this is warning, not a ticket. There would have been a small chance that she would have turned into sunshiny goodness, but I seriously doubt it.
He would have gone back to his car resolving to give everyone a ticket now, because some people with really bad impulse control have to eff up a good thing.
That woman committed suicide herself, sad but it was not murder as some keep alluding to. Now there will another GD riot when the officer is not indicted on some trumped up “social justice charges”.
Wait till I see the next young person that wants to get into law enforcement, I am going to so Gerber slap them so hard it will make their nipples stiff.
LMAO!!!
Here’s this very patient freeper describing everything in precise detail and I’m impressed with his calm demeanor...until the last line. Good response. Thanks.
Other than that I have no comment.
You are very welcome sir.
I watched the video. The gal was stupidly provoking I thought...and the officer was too easily riled...but police today have the extra worry that some nut case is gonna’ blow them away, and she was acting like a nut case. Also, I think under this administration some blacks feel they have some sort of right to be provoking. Nobody in their right mind, when they commit an infraction, and are pulled over by the police, needs to take the offensive. My husband and I have been stopped for being slightly over the posted speed limit, acknowledged same, treated the officer politely, and he in turn treated us the same way...in fact, ultimately let us off with an admonition. Since this girl’s traffic offense was not too serious, she may very well have been treated with courtesy if she had treated him with courtesy. Maybe even avoided a ticket...instead, sadly, she is dead.
She was arrested for refusing the 'order' to put her cigarette out...
Why not?
Why NOT find a soon to be dead anyway person to continue the black/white/cop turmoil ..... in Texas ?
Didn't I read she was from Chi ?
That is what I read. (from Chicago)
And being transported back for burial.
What the cop said was “Do you mind putting out the cigarette?”
She had to nerve to ask why.
It wasn’t even an order.
She was in her own car-——why should she even be asked to put it out?
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Officer Friendly was trolling for college queenies on campus.
That kind of crap really gets to me.
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