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Sandra Bland Got Pulled Over in Texas and Died in Jail Three Days Later. What Happened?
A troubling story posted Wednesday night by an ABC affiliate in Chicago is picking up momentum online Thursday: the case of Sandra Bland, a black woman from Naperville, Illinois, who was stopped by police in Waller County, Texas, for making an improper lane change last Friday and ended up dead...
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So, a woman gets pulled over for not using her blinker. Typically that gets you a ticket. Why would the woman have even been asked to leave her car? Why was she in jail three days later? Too many questions for this story. Sadly, it'll probably end with this Slate piece. We need a police force to protect the average citizen from the police force, it seems.
Or just demilitarize the whole thing... and hire good psychologists for the anger issues... and solve the whole racism thing.... Yeah it's probably cheaper and faster to create a new police force.
At least where I live, I know that the police are horribly overworked and underpaid. It's no wonder you end up with so many abuses when your pay is competitive with fast food workers. I know there are lots of good police out there who generally want to help. I think a great start would be to raise police pay in order to actually make it a competitive field. When you have good applicants, it means you can let the shitty police officers you've been holding on desk duty go. If you don't, sooner or later, one of them will end up in the field. Then you have headlines.
It's by no means a comprehensive solution, and as you mentioned, I think demilitarization is a huge part of that. Our police forces don't need grenade launchers, or tanks, or any other military 'toys'. We should have trained officers working their hardest to deescalate situations and to avoid violence unless lives are at risk.
Racism is the other part of this equation, and that's a tougher nut to crack.
"solve the whole racism thing"
I'm waiting
Any century now.
I'll tell you why. Because cops use "didn't use their blinker" as a BS excuse to pull people over. That, or, "didn't turn the blinker on early enough". The real gem is "used blinker, but turned it off too soon". That one blows my mind.
Anyhoo, she got pulled over for a BS reason and because she was a law-abiding citizen she got pissed and gave the cop a piece of her mind. Cops don't like to be told off, they will kill you for it. She got killed for it. Where are the videos from the jail? Every jail in this country has video cameras everywhere.
Edit- I just re-read the story. I was right and didn't even realize it. Notice that the cops say that she used her blinker "improperly"? Bullshit. Cops are lying, murdering scum.
This is fucking insane.
What happened? I will tell you what happened, she was a yankee person of color who knew her rights in a small Texas town. She was lynched in her cell for it. I went to high school in Houston, and during that time we heard about a town not too far away (probably this one) that still did lynchings and the reason we heard about it was because that year, a black man got chained to a pickup truck out there and was dragged to death. I'm not sure if he was visiting from Chicago or not.
It's amazing that she was held for three days for kicking an officer. I've seen people be held for 12 hours after strangling their partner. This all sounds like the same old story. I mourn for her family. :(
I read this too fast and thought it said Sandra Bullock. BRB, going to watch Speed.