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21 Aug 2015, 12:54 pm by Sandy Levinson
  As Charles Epp,  Steven Manard-Moody, and Donald Haider-Markel point out in their essential book Pulled Over:  How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, the roots of, say, Sandra Bland's tragedy, lie in part in several quite obscure cases (at least from the perspective of "constitutional theorists. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 10:32 am by Rob McKinney
It also reminds me of how I hate the modern criminal justice centers that are bland and devoid of any character. [read post]
20 Aug 2015, 11:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
After all, a dashboard camera didn't stop a state trooper from threatening to shoot Sandra Bland with a Taser.Technology can't fix a broken soul.Houston PD's disciplinary process is governed by their own special section of the state civil service code (Ch. 143 of the Local Government Code) and thus is largely immune from local intervention. [read post]
20 Aug 2015, 5:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Houston Chronicle's Leah Binkowitz has a story (Aug. 19) titled, "Bail reform urged after Sandra Bland death. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 10:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's the list as of today: 183 have died in Sheriffs' custody since January 2014, including 80 so far in 2015, a statistic which includes Sandra Bland and appears on pace to exceed last year's number.See related Grits posts:Learning from Sandra Bland: First thoughts A suggestion for the 'Sandra Bland Drivers Rights Act' Waller County DA sets up Sandra Bland investigative panel Passionate first Lege hearing on Sandra… [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 12:48 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But nobody's yet resigned or been fired at the Waller County Jail after Sandra Bland's alleged suicide. [read post]
12 Aug 2015, 7:27 am by Pete Strom
Family of Woman Found Dead in Jail Cell Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Police The family of Sandra Bland, who was found dead in a Texas jail cell last month, has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the police department alleging that they failed to protect her while she was in custody. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
  Our captivation tends to end there.Our nation objects to Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, Shawn Dubose, and the others being killed and maimed, but we do not find repellent their status as “suspect citizens,” the presumptive criminality that engulfs their race. [read post]
9 Aug 2015, 4:31 pm by Caesar and Napoli, P.C.
These funds would then be awarded to the Bland family as compensation for their loss. [read post]
9 Aug 2015, 4:31 pm by Caesar and Napoli, P.C.
These funds would then be awarded to the Bland family as compensation for their loss. [read post]
9 Aug 2015, 1:35 pm by Guest Blogger
Even as we write these words, Americans are grappling with the suspicious death of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail and the horrific killing of Sam Dubose in his car by a University of Cincinnati police officer. [read post]
9 Aug 2015, 4:01 am by SHG
Sandra Bland ended up dead in a jail cell. [read post]
7 Aug 2015, 2:45 pm
We know that Black women, like Sandra Bland and others before her, aren’t spared from police violence. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 5:24 am by SHG
“It is clearly, clearly from the back,” [family attorney Eric] Bland told Greenville Online on Wednesday. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 9:48 pm
"A Little-Noticed Supreme Court Case Could Deny Justice For Sandra Bland; The court in June immunized jail officials who failed to prevent an inmate's suicide": Cristian Farias has this article online today at The Huffington Post. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 6:00 am by Staci Zaretsky
News] * The mother of Sandra Bland, the woman who hanged herself in a Texas jail cell last month, has filed a wrongful-death suit, alleging that her daughter shouldn't have been arrested in the first place and was improperly supervised by guards. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 11:15 am
The death of Sandra Bland, whether or not it was by her own hand, was the result of a chain of events precipitated by the overly aggressive and unnecessary actions of a police officer. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 7:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Last night's Texas House County Affairs Committee hearing on the Sandra Bland episode sounds like it included some dramatic moments and received significant press coverage. [read post]