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Sandra Bland recorded cop's threat during own arrest before her death
New cellphone video has emerged revealing that Sandra Bland recorded her 2015 arrest at a traffic stop in Texas days before she died in her jail cell. In the newly...
Sandra Bland's family settles for $1.9 million
The family of the woman who committed suicide in a Texas jail cell last year after she was busted for a minor traffic violation has settled their wrongful death suit...
Officer claims prosecutors silenced him in Sandra Bland case
DALLAS — A police officer in the small Texas town where Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a jail cell after a traffic stop, says the county's top...
Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland officially fired
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas trooper indicted over his arrest of a black woman who was later found dead in jail has been formally fired, three months after his bosses...
Trooper charged with perjury in Sandra Bland traffic stop
A Texas state trooper was charged with perjury on Wednesday in connection to the contentious traffic stop last summer of Sandra Bland, a black woman who wound up arrested for...
Ben Carson downplays role of race in Sandra Bland death
WASHINGTON – GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson rejected the notion Sunday that Sandra Bland would still be alive if she were white. “There is no question that, you know, we...
No one will be charged in Sandra Bland's death
HEMPSTEAD, Texas — A grand jury decided on Monday that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff's office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died...
Grand jury meets to consider Sandra Bland case
AUSTIN - A Texas grand jury convened on Friday to decide whether anyone should be criminally charged over the death of a woman who died by hanging in an apparent...
Sandra Bland's family sues state trooper in hunt for answers
HOUSTON — The family of a black woman found dead in a Texas jail three days after a confrontation with a white state trooper filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Tuesday against...
Video debunks rumor Sandra Bland was dead in mugshot
Texas authorities on Tuesday released several hours of video footage of Sandra Bland during her three days in jail to address rumors that she was dead before arriving there.
Sandra Bland may have used pot in jail: expert
HEMPSTEAD, Texas — An initial toxicology report for Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas jail cell three days after her arrest during a traffic stop, raises the possibility that...
Autopsy shows no evidence of homicide in jail death: prosecutor
DALLAS — The autopsy of a woman who was found dead in a Texas jail revealed no injuries that would suggest she died in a violent homicide, authorities said Thursday....
Woman who died in Texas jail disclosed past suicide attempt: police
A woman who was found dead in her jail cell after a minor traffic stop escalated into her arrest apparently left a voicemail from behind bars to her pal expressing...
Sandra Bland arrest under investigation
A criminal probe has been launched into the arrest of a black woman who was pulled over by a state trooper for a traffic offense and ended up dead in...
This woman died in jail, and this is the arrest that sent her there
A police dashboard video released Tuesday shows how a routine traffic stop escalated into a shouting confrontation between a Texas state trooper and a black woman who was later found...
Death of woman in jail cell to be treated like murder probe
The death of an Illinois woman found hanged in her Texas jail cell in what local authorities said was a suicide will be investigated as thoroughly as a murder, the...