Sandra Bland Laid to Rest in Illinois

You may recall that’s the same Prairie View officer who told Bland she should have thought about her epilepsy before she resisted arrest.

City of Prairie View, Texas/via YouTube New dash cam video shows Sandra Bland being patted down July 10 before she was taken to Waller County jail in Texas, where she was found dead in her cell three days later. The line continued to grow. An overflow crowd listened to the service via speakers in the lobby or watched on closed-circuit TV in the church’s backroom, the report says.

The choir began joyously singing the gospel song The Lord is Blessing Me, and the church erupted in praise. When Ms. Bland asked why, Officer Encinia ordered her out of the vehicle.

He had a message for the Waller County police.

Sandra Bland, 28, died three days after she was arrested for a minor traffic violation in Texas.

Now mourners are still left with confusion as they celebrated the life of the 28-year-old in her hometown of Chicago on Saturday.

“The slogan “black lives matter” has now become a rallying cry for people across the US and their calls for reform seem to be gathering pace”.

In the video, trooper Brian Encinia pulls over Bland for not signaling a turn.

The mourners jumped to their feet in applause.

Bland was not, in fact, legally obligated to extinguish her cigarette, as requested by the officer.

However, while the church’s pastor agreed with the elected officials, he said he did not see the case as racially driven.

“If we wanna change, we can make it happen”, she vows. “It is a spiritual issue between some folks and God”.

“That baby did not take herself out”, Geneva Reed-Veal, Bland’s mother, said during the services. She shared that she was lucky that she and her daughter spent time together and even went on a road trip just a few weeks before she died. I’m mad too.

Mourners including local politicians queued for more than an hour outside the DuPage African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lisle, Illinois, to file past an open coffin and attend the funeral, Reuters news agency reported. Both were unarmed black suspects who were killed by white police officers. She said that while other cities were considered to hold the convening, Cleveland stood out because of Rice’s death and the death of 37-year-old Tanisha Anderson. They wore shirt with “Sandy Speaks” making a reference to the videos which Bland started posting on her Facebook page earlier this year in which she expressed her opinion regarding racism and excessive police force.