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September 16, 2016

Sandra Bland Family Settles for $1.9 Million
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Meanwhile, the family of Sandra Bland has received $1.9 million in a
wrongful death settlement with the Texas Department of Public Safety and
the Waller County jail. Twenty-eight-year-old African American Sandra
Bland died in a Texas jail cell in 2015, three days after she was
arrested for allegedly failing to signal a lane change. Authorities have
claimed Sandra Bland committed suicide while in jail by hanging herself
with a garbage bag, but her family has rejected this claim.
Topics:Black Lives Matter Police Brutality

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