They would have. But Laz was out of town that day.
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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She wasn't exactly a Sunday school teacher...but I sure don't agree with what the cop did...and sure don't think she should have been in jail.
Don’t forget Super Troopers.
Altercation "between" her and the trooper?
No.
She resisted a legal order, he went to arrest her and she resisted.
They would have. But Laz was out of town that day.
They do not allow contact visits in jail. They sometimes allow them in prisons.
Certain ethnic groups in our society have a fleeting grasp on reality.
Its not the family.
Her death was originally ruled a suicide, although officials have said they are handling it as a murder probe.
Considering it happened in Texas...Mule passed my mind.
The left and press toads now create reality.
Being a mule might explain her extreme and all out of proportion belligerence,
The cop is probably in trouble. He looks to White and the perp is a double, possibility triple protected minority. Whether he personally did anything wrong is beside the point.
I thought she had a bit “tude”....I guess some of that time the camera showed her moving around and hunched over while the LEO was in his unit wasn’t just fretting, huh....Can you say “Choom Big Gulp?”
She had a lot of time to injest it while the cop was running her license.
It depends on the jail. Some county jails in Texas allow in person visits, usually in a visiting room with several guards present. I don't know about Waller County.
She did get a lot more agitated and belligerent after she had been sitting by herself for awhile.
But if she had ingested that much right before they arrested her I would think it would have either made her visibly psychotic or worked its way through her system by the time she killed herself.
“Sandra Bland Had Long History of Driving/Legal Infractions – Family Who Refused to Assist With Bail Now Refusing To Accept “Suicide””
Which order was that?
Cop: "Do you mind putting out that cigarette?"
Soon to be dead person: "I'm in my own car."
Cop: "I'll light you up."
The cop never made an order; he asked if she minded putting out the cigarette. She minded.
I read that there were discrepancies between the answers she gave on the form she filled out, and the answers entered into the system. If she claimed she'd attempted to commit suicide before, she should have been seen by medical staff to determine if she needed to be put on suicide watch. You always want to err on the side of caution with these things.
Okay, maybe it’s just county jails in Ohio that don’t allow contact. It’s through a Plexiglas window with a phone receiver as far as I know.
Depending on how much marijuana you use, the drug can stay in your system for a long time. I heard years ago that the roots of your hair can retain drug use info for well over a month. And that was back when the tests weren’t as advanced as they are now.
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