Who Killed Sandra Bland?

[Zeke]

Sandra Bland killed Sandra Bland.

Nothing to see here.

[Oerets]

I heard on NPR yesterday the video tape of the cell might be problematic also. Appears to be glitches interrupting in the playback and has been sent to the FBI IIRC.


The officer lost it, acted arrogant and unprofessional, lost control. Should never serve another day.



Barney

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Oerets

I heard on NPR yesterday the video tape of the cell might be problematic also. Appears to be glitches interrupting in the playback and has been sent to the FBI IIRC.


The officer lost it, acted arrogant and unprofessional, lost control. Should never serve another day.



Barney

I'm suspicious about the cop's motivation for stopping her in the first place. Failure to signal a lane change? Seriously? I looked at some of that video of the stop. I sure as Hell ain't gonna waste 52 minutes of my life watching it all, but what I saw was a very lightly traveled roadway. Very little traffic. I don't know about you, but I don't signal for a lane change if there are no other cars near me. I mean what's the point?

Now I did hear her say she changed lanes to get out of his way. So it appears that he was following her. So I guess you could say there was at last one other car in the vicinity. The cop's.

Now again, who likes being followed by a cop? No one except maybe another cop. So it's understandable that she might have been nervous and in her desire to get him off her ass, changed lanes without signaling. Now in that situation I would signal. But that's because I'm 68 years old and have been around the block enough times to know to make damn sure not to give one of those motherfuckers an excuse to pull me over. She was only 28, so I can understand her making that mistake.

But now on to my real point. Why was he following her in the first place? Here's where I have more suspicions. She made another mistake by making some anti-cop rants on facebook. Showing your ass on facebook is a no no.

I suspect that this may have attracted the attention of law enforcement and that this cop knew exactly who he was following and was doing so with the intent of finding an excuse to pull her over and extracting some payback.

[matteos]

Originally Posted by icenine

Looks like another St Louis County...

Being pulled over for not using a signal during a lane change?

WTF

No one gets pulled over for that in California.

So... She's dead.

Because she didn't use her turn signal when changing lanes.

We have a massive problem in this country.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

But now on to my real point. Why was he following her in the first place? Here's where I have more suspicions. She made another mistake by making some anti-cop rants on facebook. Showing your ass on facebook is a no no.

I suspect that this may have attracted the attention of law enforcement and that this cop knew exactly who he was following and was doing so with the intent of finding an excuse to pull her over and extracting some payback.

Wow. That's quite the ridiculous and unfounded assumption.

Originally Posted by matteos

So... She's dead.

Because she didn't use her turn signal when changing lanes.

She's dead because she killed herself.

[matteos]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Wow. That's quite the ridiculous and unfounded assumption.



She's dead because she killed herself.

Allegedly killed herself.

She's dead because the cops pulled her over for not using her blinker when changing lanes on the road.

Perhaps you want to live under some tin pot dictatorship with the Gestapo watching your every move. The rest of us don't.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by matteos

Allegedly killed herself.

She's dead because the cops pulled her over for not using her blinker when changing lanes on the road.

Perhaps you want to live under some tin pot dictatorship with the Gestapo watching your every move. The rest of us don't.

'Cuz Zeke gets to be in the Gestapo.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by matteos

Allegedly killed herself.

That's not what the autopsy said.

How big do you want the conspiracy to be?

[donquixote99]

And she killed herself (if she did, investigstion still open) because she was mistreated by the cops.

Of course, they are responsible if they went into the cell, killed her, and edited the recording. But let's say you're right, let's assume the best for the cops, and say she indeed killed herself.

If you hit a person lightly, but kill them because they have a thin skull, that's manslaughter. Likewise, if you traumatize and threaten, and they are vulnerable and thrown into despair, you likewise bear responsibility for the result of your wrongful actions.

The cops are the bad guys here, any way you cut it.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

...if you traumatize and threaten, and they are vulnerable and thrown into despair, you likewise bear responsibility for the result of your wrongful actions.

Bullshit, unless you desire to charge Enron with manslaughter...