Seventy people gathered Sunday to remember Bland,who was arrested after a confrontation with a Texas trooper and found dead in her cell three days laterThe signs are different. What last year was known as University Drive is now officially called Sandra Bland Parkway. But the long-standing systemic problems exemplified by Bland’s arrest and death in custody last summer possess not changed in this rural county near Houston or elsewhere in the nation, activists said on Sunday.
“Hell no. The absence of justice for Sandra Bland is why the US is going through what it’s going through good now … in Minnesota, and Louisiana and Dallas,because of situations like what happened to Sandra Bland,” said DeWayne Charleston, or a former justice of the peace in Waller County,at an event to mark the one-year anniversary of the 28-year-old black woman’s detention in this county with a history of racism. Related: Serious deficiencies found at jail where Sandra Bland died, says novel report Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com