Sandra Bland - Waller County TX Jail cell death/suicide - July 13, 2015

Sandra Bland's death ruled suicide by hanging. The charge she faced was assault on a public servant. Yet this only happened after she was pulled over for allegedly failing to use her turn signal on July 10.

What started as a seemingly normal conversation got testy after Texas state Trooper Brian Encinia asked Bland to put out her cigarette.

Sandra Bland left friend voicemail from jail
She asks why, at which point the officer tells Bland to get out of the car. She refuses, and dashcam video shows the officer reaching in, threatening Bland with a Taser: "I will light you up!"

In his arrest warrant affidavit, Encinia wrote that Bland became "combative and uncooperative" and that she was placed in handcuffs "for officer safety."
Bland's family doesn't think the traffic stop over a turn signal should have escalated to an arrest.

"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."

LaVaughn Mosley, who says Bland left him a voicemail after her arrest indicating she was "at a loss for words" but not hinting about suicide, said it is all a shame -- especially her death.

"Here is a young black female who was on her way to being successful," Mosley said. "I don't know what happened in that jailhouse, but obviously something went terribly wrong."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/sandra-bland-arrest-death-main/