What's your view on the Sandra bland case?

Question

I'm really interested in people's opinions on this story which is now a case I guess.

Personally I thought the officer dealt with her too strictly. It should've been a ticket and that's it. She would still be alive if the officer had just given her, her ticket and let her be. It's the twenty first century and we still have to fight for equality, enough is enough.

Answer 1

I do not know, but I suspect she was mentally ill, but nobody noticed. This certainly can happen.

The officer did not recognize this or did not know what to do about it. I could not see or hear much of what Bland did while in the car. But when she got out, she said a lot that did not make sense. The officer was angry. But she was taken into the jail apparently without injury. So the officer may or may not have behaved unprofessionally, but she was not harmed there.

He did say that she did not cooperate with the warning he attempted to give her; and this seems correct.

In the jail she is reported to have said she was depressed, and she still seemed to be confused about why she was there. Yet she said she was fine, and they believed her. Until they found her dead.

As I say, I suspect she was suffering a mental breakdown that nobody recognized. If she had been watched more carefully, she might be alive now. But it is hard to put the blame on any specific person or persons, since even her family and friends did not think there was anything wrong with her.

I could be mistaken, but this is how it looks to me.

Answer 2

I think everyone is listening to too many internet rumors and hearing assumptions from the news.

The State investigation hasn't even been completed yet, the family ordered an individual autopsy and investigation that hasn't even been completed yet.

The evidence hasn't even been presented yet for anybody to give a factual answer about her death.



And in the little bit of video the public has been shown, the part of this story where she was pulled over, both her and the cop escalated that situation PERIOD

Answer 3

Unfair or not, the parameters of the law permit an officer to order a person to leave their car. When Sandra Bland refused to exit her vehicle the officer was actually acting within the law when he decided to place her under arrest. That being said, the officer may have violated protocol. I do believe that he exasperated the situation.

Answer 4

It's highly suspicious, and the more facts come out, the less and less this makes sense.



For instance, the police claim she committed suicide by hanging herself with a trash bag. Yet, trash bags aren't allowed in jail cells, nor was the bag strong enough to support her weight (it would have ripped) nor were there marks on her neck consistent with being hung to death.



I don't know what happened, but it wasn't suicide, and the police weren't following approved procedures.

Answer 5

It what world is it ok to scream at a police office? Oh that's right, the world inhabited by an individual of the special victim class.

Answer 6

Many people both Black and White have said, just follow directions from the cop. If you think you have been treated wrong, file a complaint later. If she had done that she would be home now not dead. Right or wrong, cops have the upper hand at that time.

Answer 7

She had the nerve to speak to a cop in America. For that they must beat, frame or murder you in America. There law had them try to do such repeadedly in America for the high crime of speaking to a American cop & trying to file a complaint against the likes of them. Standard cop work in America.

Answer 8

It's Texas. Texas is Nazi Germany.

Answer 9

-Something "smells" bad- about it. And from what I've Seen & Heard about Texas, I have a feeling that THAT- may be IT. :o

Answer 10

How is this a "Books and Authors" question?