Bland was pulled over in her car on July 10 by state trooper Brian
Encinia for failing to signal a lane change in Prairie View, about 50
miles northwest of Houston.
Sandra Bland pronounced dead in US prison jail cell(chicagotribune)
A Texas grand
jury decided on Monday not to issue indictments relating to the death
of an African-American woman who died by hanging in an apparent suicide
in her jail cell, a special prosecutor said.
A Waller County grand jury also decided not to indict any members of the jail staff in the case of Sandra Bland,
28, who was found dead in her cell three days after being jailed for a
traffic stop this summer, said Darrell Jordan, a special prosecutor in
the case.
The grand jury will reconvene in January to deliberate other matters in the case, Jordan said.
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In
August, the family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death suit against a
Texas trooper, a sheriff's office and her jailers, accusing them of
being responsible for her hanging.
Bland was pulled over in her car on July 10 by state trooper Brian Encinia for failing to signal a lane change in Prairie View, about 50 miles northwest of Houston.
The
stop escalated into a verbal altercation after Encinia asked Bland to
put out a cigarette and she refused. Bland was arrested and charged with
assaulting an officer, a felony.
The discovery of
Bland's body in her cell three days later with a trash bag around her
neck raised suspicions of racist treatment.
Local officials have said she was not mistreated in jail.
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