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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I’d be willing to bet there are bus company policies that tell a driver if he is involved in an accident to guard the bus!
Guard the bus? Yes, keep nearby pedestrians from boarding the bus during the melee and playing “injured passenger.”
She could easily have been packing a small quantity of hash, which if ingested would cause her to test positive for marijuana.
Occam's razor. What is the simplest explanation?
1. A guard permitted her to chain smoke a large quantity of marijuana in her jail cell.
2. She was able to smuggle in a small quantity of hash (hollowed out tampons are often used for this purpose), which she ingested in jail.
3. She ingested a large amount of marijuana or a small amount of hash in her car during the 10 minutes or so that she was alone while the officer was checking her driving license.
I don’t know about ‘simplest’, but #3 fits the facts and the video.
I’m not sure that even if she did consume some form of THC that it is what caused her to hang herself. Sounds like she had ‘suicidal tendencies’ and it was just a matter of time before she was successful.
Eating raw pot is a big waste of money.
And really: a”drug mule” smuggling POT internally? That is absurd.
I recently traveled to CA. When it was time to return I had some pot left that I did not want to bring on the plane.
I did not to waste it, so I ate it in my hotel room before leaving for the airport. About 1.2 grams in all.
It did absolutely nothing to my brain. Disappointment!
Due to your input I now know to warm it up on the heating element of the coffee maker first, so yeah, thank you for that.
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