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No indictment in Sandra Bland jail death

7 years 9 months 1 week ago Tuesday, December 22 2015 Dec 22, 2015 December 22, 2015 8:12 AM December 22, 2015 in News
Source: Associated Press

HEMPSTEAD, Texas - A grand jury has decided no felony crime was committed by the sheriff's office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Southeast Texas county jail last summer.
    
But prosecutor Darrell Jordan says the Waller County grand jury on Monday reached no decision on whether the trooper that arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland should face charges. The grand jury will return in January to consider that.
    
The Chicago-area woman was pulled over July 10 by a Texas state trooper for making an improper lane change. Dashcam video showed their interaction quickly became confrontational and she was arrested for assault.
    
Three days later, unable to raise about $500 bail, she was discovered dead in her cell. Relatives question the finding that she killed herself.

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