At the time of being pulled over on July 10, Sandra Bland was driving through Prairie View, Texas, preparing to begin a new life and new job at Prairie View A&M University, where she graduated in 2008 and was a member of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Bystander phone video footage shows Bland being assaulted by the arresting officers, with her at one point exclaiming, “You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that?”.
On Sunday, DuPage African Episcopal Methodist Church, where Bland was an active member, held a silent prayer walk in her memory. While speaking to the press, Pastor Miller shared, “Let me say this, I’m no expert on entitlement and double standard, but I know that when elected officials can defy the Supreme Court the highest court in the land and openly defy it and get re-elected, and people get pulled over for not signaling for traffic and end up dead, something is wrong.”
An independent autopsy has been conducted. In a recent interview with Roland Martin, Cooper expressed the family’s grief. “It is disheartening. We are an extremely close-knit family. We are just frustrated that we couldn’t be there to protect our baby girl. She called home on Saturday to let us know she was in jail. That was the last time we spoke to her.”
We all can be there for Sandra now, as we collectively lift our digital voices for answers. Continue to share articles, Tweet, Instagram and everything else you have access to. We have our marching orders directly from the family and there WILL be #JusticeForSandy.
#sandySTILLspeaks: Family Of Sandra Bland Requests “Please Keep The Conversation Going” was originally published on blackdoctor.org
