Texas Authorities Say Autopsy Claims Bland’s Injuries Consistant

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.

Bland’s friend Mosley described finding the recording as “haunting and chilling”, adding, “I just had to relive everything that had happened, and to hear her voice after I knew she was gone”.

Texas Rangers and the FBI are investigating.

On Thursday, the woman’s sister confirmed that Bland had taken prescription medication for seizures in the past.

Bland told her jailers she had attempted suicide before, indicating that she took pills after “losing a baby”.

Company information on Keppra, which is sold in regular and extended-release forms, says that “antiepileptic drugs, including Keppra and Keppra XR, may cause suicidal thoughts or actions in a very small number of people, about 1 in 500”.

“I simply feel like the officer was picking on her, and I believe that is petty”, her sister Sharon Cooper told CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront”.

The medication was not the only inconsistency in the jail-intake papers.

Asked if her sister could have been getting treatment without relatives knowing, Cooper said the family’s five sisters were “above board” with each other and, if anything, “overshared”.

“She wasn’t eating and when I did talk to her, she was just crying and crying and all I could say was they could not hold you forever”, Pyle said.

A county prosecutor in Texas said Thursday that the autopsy results of Sandra Bland, the woman who was found dead in a jail cell earlier this month, revealed injuries consistent with suicide and showed no evidence of a violent struggle or homicide, as indicated by New York Times. “The judge wasn’t there when they brought her in, she said the judge should be in sometime”.

Preliminary results of the autopsy also showed that Bland had marijuana in her system. The drug-test results are worth noting because they could be “relevant to her state of mind”, Diepraam said.

State authorities who inspected the jail after Howell’s death found the county at fault for failing to observe inmates face-to-face every hour – the same noncompliance violation inspectors found with the Waller County jail in the wake of Bland’s death.

Bland’s death has been ruled a suicide by hanging by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office. It has resonated on social media, with posts questioning the official account and featuring the hashtags (hash)JusticeForSandy and (hash)WhatHappenedToSandyBland.

Mosley had last seen Bland about a week before listening to the voicemail, as reported by the L.A. Times, on the day that she successfully interviewed for a new job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, in Texas. She can be heard in a video recording of the arrest saying that he slammed her head into the ground.

Dashcam video of Bland’s traffic stop that was released Tuesday by Texas authorities came under fire nearly immediately for appearing to be edited.

At that point the officer tells Bland to get out of the vehicle.

Another thing that has angered Bland’s supporters, and raised their suspicions even more, is how and why she was arrested in the first place. “Um, but I’m still here, so I guess call me back when you can”.