Sandra Bland's mother doesn't accept suicide finding
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The mother of Sandra Bland says she's still not in a position to accept authorities' word that her daughter killed herself in jail after a minor traffic stop turned into an angry confrontation between the black motorist and a white Texas state trooper...
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The mother of Sandra Bland says she’s still not in a position to accept authorities’ word that her daughter killed herself in jail after a minor traffic stop turned into an angry confrontation between the black motorist and a white Texas state trooper.
Geneva Reed-Veal told The Associated Press on Tuesday that five months later, she still has not been provided with even the initial police report on the July 10 traffic stop or the 28-year-old’s death three days later.
Authorities say Bland hanged herself in her jail cell with a plastic bag.
On Monday, a grand jury decided that neither sheriff’s officials nor jailers committed a crime in the treatment of Bland.
Reed-Veal says that without seeing the Texas Rangers investigation into her daughter’s death, she cannot accept the finding that it was suicide.
The report has been withheld because it was grand jury evidence.
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