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The family of Sandra Bland will file a federal lawsuit over the 28-year-old’s death in police custody, according to the family’s attorney.

Bland’s death has sparked a conversation among lawmakers in Texas and elsewhere about jail standards and how authorities deal with potentially mentally ill or suicidal inmates.

The prosecutor in the Sandra Bland death investigation said Monday he has appointed an outside group of lawyers to review the evidence in the case to ensure that Waller County remains “an open book”.

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw has confirmed he will testify at the hearing, along with Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson, who has for years voiced concerns about problems facing Texas jails.

According to The Dallas Morning News, the silent footage documents Bland being interviewed in her prison uniform, making numerous phone calls and being taken to her jail cell.

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

Waller County Judge Trey Duhon told reporters in a presentation of the video that law enforcement officials have received death threats stemming from Internet rumors that Bland was dead before she was taken to jail.

New video showing Sandra Bland being booked into the Waller County Jail has been released by authorities who say they want to clear up rumors being spread on social media.

The I-Team had requested personnel records for the trooper in the Sandra Bland traffic stop, the incident that resulted in her arrest and jailing.

Dominque Alexander, left, speaks to activists protesting the treatment of Sandra Bland on Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at Belo Gardens in Dallas.

I’m Jared Ball here in Baltimore.

While prosecutors ruled Bland’s death a suicide, her family and friends have maintained that they do not believe she would have taken her own life.

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

He says some lacerations or abrasions were found on her wrists, injuries consistent with a struggle while being handcuffed. The roughly 30 marks were healing from 2-4 weeks prior to her death, Diepraam said.

Democratic State Senator Royce West told a news conference there would be no cover-up in the investigation of the death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old Chicago-area woman, three days after she was arrested in Prairie View, Texas, northwest of Houston. After he hands her a ticket,...