Can We Agree That Sandra Bland is Not Dead in Her Booking Photo?

Sandra… I agree she’s not dead in the booking photo but is she standing upright? Until people have answers, they will speculate. I’m glad the FBI is looking into this. This is a “developed country” give us answers and hold the cop accountable for escalating the situation and threatening a female over a traffic offense.

RIP to my soror.

Lord I don’t want to talk about this shyt here ….. is this a trap post?

Man they are doing the mostest tryna fluck up the story with all kinds of bullcrap!! The truth will come out on this one though because even Stevie Wonder can see the story does not add up!! *sucks teefs* Cho!

This cat gets me every time!!

I’m mad twittah has a black twitter and pink toe twittah…. damn …..

We all know that. Doesn’t change the fact that these routine traffic violations that result in arrest BEEN out of control. To say nothing for the ones that ultimately end in death. Do they really need to tell these cops not to make a mountain out of a mole hill?

She had a history of depression, and her arrest was one more stressful setback that she couldn’t handle.

^^^^ Chile Sandra

SO we just going to do this EVERYDAY.

no shes not dead n the booking pic. no she did not commit suicide.

You are missing one point that EVERY lawyer said: SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE EVER BEEN ARRESTED!!!!! I RREPEAT SHE SHOULD MOT HAVE BEEN ARRESTED!! The hate you have for your people. You got three strikes: black, lesbian, and a woman. Wake up sheep.

I plead the 5th, I’m saying uncle, I’m going to eat a snack.

Sandra doesn’t hate her people. You’re taking your inability to accept other people’s opinions too far.

I didn’t think she was dead in the picture, but I do think that YOU Ms. Sandra are dead wrong for your “approach” on this situation and how you choose to write your posts. So it’s probably best that I just skip those on here.

This along with LA Time’s “Black Twitter” reporter kills me!

Yeah, I saw this on my FB timeline, people were dissecting everything..I just kept on scrolling..I’ll wait for the real story instead of all these made up speculations…

Is that Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch?

Ma’am. You been here on this blog five minutes. I know she not dead in the pic. ????

I have not clue … probably is lol

???? Sandra Mae

I couldn’t have said it better.

Exactly keep them eyes open boo….

She may not be physically dead…but her eyes are…not to take away from the fact that there are still alot of unknowns about the situation…and it is still a tragic situation for our community because the “others” just dont care…the things we as brown ppl have to endure on a daily basis is enough to make anyone crazy

She looks like she has been crying that’s all…..

UPDATE:

Investigators say no injuries consistent with a violent homicide were found during an autopsy of a woman who was found dead in a Texas jail.

Waller County prosecutor Warren Diepraam on Thursday discussed details of the autopsy of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, who authorities say was found hanging in her jail cell on July 13.

Diepraam says the autopsy showed that Bland had no defensive injuries on her hands that would typically indicate a struggle. He says some lacerations or abrasions were found on her wrists, injuries consistent with a struggle while being handcuffed.

He also says marks around Bland’s neck are consistent. He says that in violent homicide, investigators wouldn’t see a consistent mark.

He says the injuries that were found would be consistent with a suicide.

This is a breaking news update. Check back later for more.

+1,000,000

Why the hostility towards Sandra Bland? At the most, she was troubled, got into a slight altercation with a police officer, and lost her life because of it, however she died. She never did anything so wrong to justify her being dead now. I believe she was murdered, and not to be funny, but I’m sure it’s depressing as h ell when you can’t get out of prison over a 500 dollar bond. Good gracious, why didn’t her family bail her out? Friends? Ex? Nobody could bail her out. A sad situation.

So this is what I come back for and to. Ok.

Bloop.

And that damn dog

The GOP is working overtime…

DAY-M-UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Why is she laying on the floor? She may not be dead but she certainly doesn’t look ok. Her family said they were bailing her out Monday. She was killed. Suffering from depression doesn’t equal suicidal. She was murdered & they’re trying to find anyway to cover this shit up.

Black twitter is full of white folks pretending to be black and being ignorant cause they equate our skin color with ignorance.. .I refuse to believe anybody can be this blasted strupid – yes I meant strupid making me speak in tongues and chit…
the cop basically got into his feelings because she refused to put out her cigarette which frankly is her blasted right her car her cigarette step back you don’t like the smoke – something tells me he smashed her head into the pavement and broke something and she died – he could have given her a small hematoma that travelled into her brain as aneurism… who knows… very very sad…. but i’m still confused why after 3 days she still in jail on a traffic offense – whey dey do dat at?

Soulja boy tell em…
she oneno

DPS Director Steve McCraw and Texas State Senator Royce West have released brief statements about the case. McCraw told the Washington Post today that Encinia did not display proper conduct.

“Regardless of the situation, the DPS state trooper has an obligation to exhibit professionalism and be courteous,” said DPS Director Steve McCraw. “That did not happen in this situation.”

When asked by reporters if Sandra Bland caused her own death, West said “no.” He also added that she didn’t deserve to be arrested in the first place.

That makes a lot of sense about a head injury, then a cover up.

I will look into it, I read up on it but not in depth..Food industry has been trying for years and China..every damn thing is processed over there…smh…I don’t eat a lot of processed foods and I try to eat organic but unless you grow your own food…..you never know.

This is not breaking news, that autopsy was performed by the county, this is why the family is hiring their own independent person to perform another autopsy.

See

I typed an entire response and then hit the wrong button.Comment gone.So let’s sum this up with IS YOU HIGH? Cause that is the only way I could come up with dragging this woman through the mud like she asked for there to be a debate about how she died and whether or not she was alive in the photo. Folks need to stop demonizing her like she is the one sensationalizing this story. I mean you got to be HURT HURT HURT to keep on acting like this woman deserved to die. Furthermore IF she was mentally ill painting her dismayed behavior as violent or hostile misconstrues the true struggle people with mental illness face.

I completely understand that. That’s how I grew up, and I’ve been fortunate and blessed to keep money in my checking and savings since I started working full time. That’s why I do it because I never want to be dead broke, no matter what time of the month. You never know what will come up. But, my mama knew how to hustle. I’m not trying to disparage her family and I don’t know what happened, but my mama would have got that 500 dollars up. She would have gone to a check cashing place, she would have done a title loan, she would have borrowed, she would have overdrafted her checking account. Anything. There are ways to get 500 dollars. Aside from it being the weekend, and that can hold up bond, that 500 dollars should have been ready for her, especially in Texas in an extremely racist place that they knew nothing about.

U better tell em niggars still sleep!

Don’t forget about “shots”

New post

Lmao

He probably judged her from the beginning natural black young ect.

Someone entered her cell

True statement

I have never heard your voice, YET I heard your voice when you said that.

A woman in the next cell said that Sandra was very emotional and crying the entire time. She said Sandra told her that she was upset about not being able to talk with her family, and about missing her first day on the job. She also said that she didn’t hear any commotion going on in Sandra’s cell.

I was up to 3am going Ham on someone saying the same Bull. I need to take a social media break, this is making me wreary!

“Why would somebody commit suicide for being arrested ? Not on trial……”
^^^^
Depressed people commit suicide every day in this country. Depression is a mental illness. Depressed people lack coping skills. Unlike you, they struggle every day to find a reason to keep on living.

Has the senator seen any evidence? Is he part of the investigation into the case? He sounds like he’s running for reelection. Politicians will say anything.

For the record, black people aren’t the only people dying/committing suicide in holding cells.

According to a recent Washington Post article, more white die/commit suicide while in lockup, than any other race.

And even when they rule her death a suicide, you will still find a reason to dispute it. Your mind is already made up.

Video does not show anyone enter her cell.

Lol, so true…

Yes, it’s probably best.

Don’t waste your time on people that’s brain sleep.

She just like to play mind games and laugh behind her computer( Sandra)

I am a registered nurse. I also suffered from depression. I attempted suicide as a pre-teen. People who are depressed commit suicide every day in America. 400,000 people attempted suicide last year. Sandra Bland told jailers she attempted suicide before. She had a history of depression. Please educate yourself, hun.

And so will you!

Wow!!! someone finally had the nerve to speak the truth!!!! Let ‘doll’ and others on here be sheep.

It’s amazing how Sandra Rose liked Doll’s comment but didn’t reply to Lovezoe’s comment. Sandra is the type to throw rocks and hide her hands… better known as a Coward. I wish she would just report the news and keep her opinions to herself. She wants to be Wendy Williams so badly..

I suffered from depression and still do because of Graves Disease and I have never once wanted or tried to kill myself. I feel an overwhelming amount of sadness. It doesn’t make me suicidal. I have delt with this for years so I think I know a little bit.

What’s really the truth?

??? I ate an “Elyria” Apple the other day and it gave me the kinda ? that no human body should ever experience. I recall a Stanford university professor, Tyrone Hayes, discuss the dangers of pesticides and preservatives years ago when people blew him off.

Sad truth her family is accountable for her death as well. I don’t think it was poverty. I think they didn’t care. And that’s the real reason Sandra Bland was crying she knew her family didn’t love her and didn’t care to bail her out. But they will happily file a wrongful death suit and live off her tragic death. How they could be so heartless and leave her there.

Police don’t shoot white celebrities that curse them out and talk about do you know they are and threaten to have them fired and some of them spit on the police and hit them and white celebrities don’t get man handled and shot by police.

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So where is this information because the latest information that the public is aware of is this footage from the dash cam where he asks her to put out her cigarette. She refuses, he threatens to “light her ass up” and then all we hear is their altercation on top of this video that is floating around that gives the impression that its been tampered with.

Although I agree that these latest claims of her being dead already is a stretch I’m actually in awe that you have the audacity to sit here and act like this extreme paranoia is not warranted in situations like this.

EXACTLY. These police officers are in the field of INTIMIDATION rather than fulfilling the objectives of de-escalating situations. Instilling fear in civilians all while they are in complete violation of your rights.

And she might have been smoking weed, which she quickly covered by lighting up a cigarette to cover the skunk smell. Poor thing, all she needed was a chance to get right.

Didn’t even know that this was a thing? If black Twitter says that pork is better than chicken, will there be a post about that too? No? Ok then, let us keep focusing on getting answers about this young lady’s death.

These sad, attempted red herrings…. Lol. Girl stop.

he also bashed her head into the ground. Sandra always defending white criminals and wonder why lipstickalley.com continue to drag her ugly ass.

Amen!!

Amen!!! Do we have any lions out there????

Some of the cops be on power trips. Ive only encountered a few but I always fall back keep calm start my phone recording or call 911 and tell them to hold and listen. Then I inform the irate cop that I will be contacting their sergent and internal review about their behavior, so they can be reminded that I pay taxes to be protected and served and not harrassed. Boy do they turn fire red but they check their attitude quick.

Im quoting what another poster stated:

“She has emotional problems to begin with evident by her previous suicide attempt..Put in an isolated cell, all she had to focus on was the reality that she is in another State, just got into a physical altercation with a cop, her head was hit, wrist and shoulder damaged, she was humiliated, likely In shock at the escalation and in physical pain, she probably thinking she’s lost her job, no money to bail her out Her family is not there She feels isolated,, vulnerable, overwhelmed, and after three days of that running through her mind, became despondent very quickly And makes Another attempt on her life This time succeeding.”

I agree with this statement. She probably thought she lost her job and was probably very depressed sitting in that jail cell alone. She may have thought she had nothing to look forward too after being release. In jail you can get very very depressed. The officer who arrested her probably was in the wrong but that doesn’t mean he is an murderer. Sometimes everything is not always about race. In this case I believe to took her own life.

I understand this Ms. Rose but the signs just don’t add up, depression is something we all face. I could lose my job right now and feel depressed like the world is against me and get a new job and all of those feelings go away. According to the footage she was on her way to an interview. As much sense as I try to make of this case it still doesn’t add up.

Thanks for blocking it was fun for the moment…I really do have better things too…but I may lurk from time to time…

Do u feel the video could have been edited maybe?

Banned and booted lmbo

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This is my ish “Charlie, what did the five fingers say to the face…SMACK!!!!!!

Lmbo

True statement

Right man

Bout to google him

GUHL in the cartoon SALEM was the coolest one

Huffington Post has the transcript. I was getting worked up just reading it. I could feel her frustration just oozing out of her. Haven’t seen the video and don’t really want to.

Dismissive hand

Tell em

Ok thank you for the information!

OMG????

Not only that,they are saying she had about 30 cuts on her wrist so if someone has 30 cuts on their wrist and it’s not covered up wouldn’t everyone see it? She had on a sundress with no sleeves. That means she wasn’t hiding the thirty cuts which is odd because a person who cuts themselves hide it and if she had that many cuts on her wrist the police would have noticed the cuts when they removed the hand cuffs and therefore would have put her on suicide watch. You will never get me to believe she had thirty cuts on her writs and none of friends and family noticed it.

Zane?

#dead

It wouldn’t matter…lol.

Every time I hear that I think about the fact that there were slaves who would tell other slaves who wanted to escape “why are we escaping we should just stay it’s nothing out there for us” chile……

Come through penny

That hair is everything

Sanging…SPEECHlessss but speechless tho;

Right we will never know…

So what happens when or if we find out she didn’t kill herself..people stay giving white people the benefit of doubt…..

So I guess you got the truth?

amen

Woww what interesting and intelligent person (black is beautiful)! Sounds like a modern day george washington carver huh… Imma have to do sum mo research but my sociology teacher tried to put us on but some foolish students could handle the convo…

She dead in that photo

This is the biggest troll ever!

I would like to see the profile mugshot. Not sure why that hasn’t been released, would certainly clear up a few issues. What seems strange here is that not only is she photographed in prison “garb” which is highly unusual in mugshots from Waller County as you can see in the link below– but also the shadows in the photo to the right of her and on the right side of her face and neck suggest directional light that if she were standing up would create shadow behind her right shoulder which is not there, making it very plausible that she is actually lying down. It truly is a very strange photo that does beg questions that should be answered.
http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Texas/Waller-County-TX/?page=1

but you acting like them “ruling” her death a “suicide” the truth. I see you believe what anyone tells you. Depression may be real but just b/c someone suffered from it previously doesn’t mean they where suffering from it then. I find it funny how your narcissistic opinions are never backed with medical facts …just your opinion. Her FB latest FB posting showed no signs of a woman suffering from depression. Actually looking forward to her future. Why make the trip to Texas for a job interview, if your depressed. THAT makes no sense.

is the photo up top supposed to be an enlarge photo of the one upper right? if so ever played that game of whats different in two photos that are supposed to be similar? the crewneck tshirt shows more in the enlarged pic, and her neck looks longer in the enlarged pic. she may not be dead but she is definitely laying down

Ethnicity…”Non-Hispanic” ummmm duuuh!

And this is how you properly and legally handle asshole cops…heck, any cop.

The cop was wrong but now we’re talking about Sandra Bland in the past tense when had she chosen a different response, we’d be giving her props for putting his ass on blast and forcing his superiors to take disciplinary action for his aggressive behavior.

Agree with you wholeheartedly, however, was it worth all the neck-snapping attitude when she could have recorded the aggressive tone/behavior, posted it online and filed a complaint which with support from the media, activist groups, etc would have yielded a better result for her?

You are ignorant and have the ability to reach the masses. Simply pathetic. Her videos don’t show a weak person and she was depressed from losing a child, it seems trying to speak to the people was a driving motivation for her. She got her dream job and was minding her business. She shouldn’t have even been arrested, hence this would have never happened.

The original.

They want it back to see if she had swallowed weed.

I thought that checking stomach contents were part of the standard autopsy.

That’s why I said they’re going to throw everything and anything out there to cover themselves.

Right the some b.s. and if swallowed weed she would’ve been calm

I was all on board with most people…until I seen the entire video. Some wars aren’t even worth fighting and that was one. If she felt she was being wronged she should have complied, recorded and reported….atleast she would be alive right now to tell her story.

YOu soooo full of shit, I pray the day you dont get pulled over as bad as your mouth is. She did not deserve to be 1 locked up for not putting out a cigarette.

And Idk Sandra rose. I was redirected to her site since necolebitchie stopped blogging. Big mistake I see. This woman suffers from wendy williams syndrome. ms Wendys self hate comes from her upbringing. She’s brainwashed!. Idk rose but wats her story?

She’s clearly not dead in this photo. What it looks like is her leaning into the wall pressing her weight into it. If she was dead she would have had no expression on her face. She’s clearly unhappy in this shot.
With that being said, I hope she’s at peace now. Mental illness is so very often overlooked in the black community. It’s sad she felt she needed to take her own life. She owed a lot of money and suffered from depression and people have committed suicide for less but she should have gotten help, not taken the easy way out. RIP Sandra, my condolences are with your family.

The Arizona cop that ran up into a naked lady’s home uninvited that wrestling and cuffing her) retired in the middle of a pending investigation and is now collecting his pension…

They really think they are holier than thou, like you can’t stand up for yourself or question their intentions. There was a video that showed Sheriffs chasing a van of illegal immigrants. The van crashed and the immigrants began to flee. The Sheriff deputies caught them and began to viciously beat them like they were a disobedient bunch of dogs. Google it! It truly says a lot about cops and their attitude.

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Evelyn Davis for President! You give me life!

But its funny

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Yes she did get smart with cops did it had to go this far for a traffic lane change .. $500 .bail determine whether she lived or die ? Wow

Bland was alive and well. What killed was her family and friends not being there for her. http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/Suburban-Woman-Found-Dead-in-Jail-Had-Previous-Encounters-With-Police-316025661.html#ixzz3geb6z8s6

I don’t know, I wasn’t there but let me point out a few things. First of all her head is either on the wall or floor because on our right(her left) the dreads are compressed against the wall/floor. Now this is not strange however her chin is not tilted downward which is what naturally happens when the back of your head is up against a wall while you are standing. You know there is contact with the surface because there is NO SHADOW.That is what makes me think that she is lying down. Next she doesn’t look angry,mad, afraid…, hell, she doesn’t have ANY facial expression! She is blank. Also, the jaws are not full as in her other photos,Her cheek bones are accentuated as if the skin is pulled back, I also noticed that her sternoclavicular is very relaxed(the base of neck) gravity is responsible for this, she could be in a lying position.Try it, take a selfie, no expression upright, then do it lying down. Notice the small subtleties. I also noticed her nose is red, this can be attributed to a normal process during death-

ii. Livor mortis/Post-mortem hypostasis (Lividity)

When
circulation of blood ceases, any subsequent movement of this liquid
will be gravitational – that is to say, the blood will tend to flow
downward. Consequently they will accumulate in capillaries and small
veins in dependent parts of the body, and this is manifest as a purple or reddish-purple colour7 on the skin. This is known as lividity, and it is usually apparent within half an hour to two hours after death,-http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A2451683

All of that is to say that, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck. I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS WOMAN KILLED HERSELF! So she was suffering from PTSD, she was depressed, hell,we are all depressed at some point! She was getting her life on track, she was vibrant and looking forward to her new job. So are you trying to tell me that she had to wait until she was arrested to hang herself with a plastic bag? And just where in the hell did she get a plastic bag from anyway. Something is not right here.Standing, sitting or otherwise, I scream foul play.

No, she deserved to be locked up for disobeying a direct order, resisting, and assaulting an officer

WAIT UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO YOUR LOVE ONE!!! KARMA’S A B*TCH!!!

Seems like yours is as well!

If you look at the pictures to their posting her in jail she had twist she did not have afro or her hair down. She was 175 pounds and 6 feet tall that she’s not big but the but the person but the person but the person walking through the but the person walking through the jail little bigger than that . I am 5 10 and I weigh 205 and you would never know it because I don’t look fat. I’m just concerned about what what happened fron the beginning. she should have have never never been in jail

Are they the entitled gutter trash who believe their race makes it okay to well…be entitled…kill those you deem less than, steal countries, enslave people, commit genocide…lol and smh