Sandra Bland may have received marijuana in jail

Sandra Bland is shown in a photo posted on her Facebook page on May 21, 2015.

The Waller County District Attorney’s Office released hours of raw CCTV footage on Tuesday afternoon showing the 28-year-old woman walking in to the jail following her arrest during a traffic stop on July 10.

The hacker group Anonymous has tried to take down county websites, and some local officials have received death threats, Waller County Judge Trey Duhon told a news conference.

Officials said they’ve received death threats and threats to their facilities through email and by phone based on the idea that Bland was dead when she was brought to jail. The footage also shows Bland being put into one cell and then taken to another.

“Sandra Bland was alive and well” until she was found hanging on July 13 in her cell at the Waller County Jail, Duhon said. Michael Baden, former medical examiner for the City of New York, evaluated the photo for USA TODAY and said Bland did not appear dead to him, partly because her eyes appeared “purposefully” open.

Just because restaurants are no longer segregated doesn’t mean there’s no more racism in Waller County. Bland is also seen making several phone calls and standing in front of a magistrate. She was in custody after a traffic stop for failing to use a turn signal escalated into a physical confrontation with a white state trooper. On an initial toxicology report, experts have indicated a possibility of Bland having accessed Marijuana while in prison.

“I wish it could have gone out earlier”, Duhon said, citing technical difficulties in distributing the video that were only resolved Monday night.

“She’s been sleeping in the holding cell, and this is where the infamous mugshot is taken against the wall”, Duhon said. Bland’s story is the latest in a series of high-profile police-involved deaths that have triggered national scrutiny over the treatment of blacks, and in Chicago as recently as Tuesday night, more than 100 people gathered downtown for a vigil and protest.

Hundreds of people held a vigil and march for Bland on Sunday. They have not been altered in any way. Her friends, family and supporters on social media say that’s unlikely – Bland was stopped en route to a new job – and some have even suggested she was killed during the arrest. Bland was arrested and charged with assaulting an officer, a felony.

The Texas Department of Public Safety, its Texas Rangers division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking into the case.