Toxicology report shows Sandra Bland may have smoked pot while in custody
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.
Duhon said that the videos are being released now because of threats made against Waller County officials and property. There’s no other way around it. This video has not been altered or doctored in any way.
An autopsy released indicated that Bland committed suicide and did not show any signs of a struggle that would be associated with a violent death.
Three months after the video was taken, she was pulled over for failing to signal and, after she refused to put out her cigarette, she was ordered from the vehicle and arrested.
But images emerging on Twitter appeared to suggest contradicting information between the suicide risk assessment and the inmate intake sheet.
Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith insists there is no racism in his Texas county, where Sandra Bland died.
“There’s no footage that indicates to me that Ms. Bland was treated unfairly in any way shape or form while she was in the Waller County Jail”, he said.
“Sandra Bland was entitled to proper medical care, entitled that everything about her care brought her safety and security”, he said, adding that he had previously spent time in the jail because of his activism.
“Judge Trey Duhon says his county has come under cyberattack by people who suspect Bland was killed in custody”.
Bland was held on $5,000 bail and was not able to get the $500 she needed to post it and be released.
While Mathis wouldn’t discuss the report Monday, one of his prosecutors, Warren Diepraam, said last week that he wouldn’t rule out the drug being smuggled into the jail.
The most prominent of the rumors circling the internet is from notorious hackivist group Anonymous, which released a video on YouTube alleging that Sandra Bland was dead in her mugshot.
To increase the authorities’ credibility, an external legal team has been brought in to assist Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis in investigating Bland’s death.
A toxicology report for the Naperville woman found dead in a Texas jail cell shows she may have smoked pot while in custody. In response to a press question about Bland getting agitated, Duhon said “there was some moving of the hands”.
Two dash cam videos of the traffic stop that led to Bland’s arrest and the video of the hours on July 13, when her body was discovered in her cell, had already been released. “I think he should just recuse himself”.