Discussion: Sandra Bland Autopsy Finds No Injuries Consistent With Violent Homicide

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I’ll wait on the private autopsy, thanks.

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Which Autopsy? The first one or the one ordered after the case went national?

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And I’m supposed to BELIEVE him? No thank you.

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Prosecutor, n.: One whose job is to argue in favor of finding defendants guilty.
Defense Attorney, n.: One whose job is it to argue against finding defendants guilty.

Um.

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This is the same autopsy they claimed they bungled and needed to do again.

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Jailers: She said she was suicidal. So for no reason we stuck her in a room with a plastic bag for three days. And your problem is?/s

They can keep washing their hands all they want but I doubt it will do much good.

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The thing that matters most is, she shouldn’t have been in jail in the first place.

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Not only is this the autopsy that needs to be a do-over, it’s likely the same autopsy and crime lab that indicates a toxicology of a person having ingested a large amount of marijuana.

I’m interested to know how a person in jail for three days, after having been strip search and without their original clothes, would be able to ingest a large amount of marijuana.

Would it be reasonable to assume that a large amount of marijuana would be enough to render a person incapable of defending themselves from a lynching?

Or, would it be enough marijuana to cause a person who suffered from depression to hallucinate enough to commit suicide?

Is it possible the trauma from having her head bashed into the pavement may have caused a mental episode?

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Thank you for the only sane comment on here. Clearly she killed herself (even prisoners in adjacent cells said she was acting nuts and should not have been left alone). BUT, the arrest was absurd, and to not take precautions when a clearly unstable person is put into lockup is just gross negligence. THAT is the issue, and there is definitely liability here. But they did not kill her and stage the hanging, that is just plain silly.

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So far this whole extended affair leaves me with just 16 points/questions/concerns:
Starting after the peaceful stop of the white woman in the other car,

  1. Why the sudden violent U-Turn? What emergency were you responding to to warrant that kind of driving? And why weren’t your emergency lights on during this “emergency maneuver”?
  2. She was merely getting out of the way of an emergency vehicle. They WILL ticket you for not getting over(trust me).
  3. Once he was handing her the warning/ticket, the stop was completed and she is free to go and no longer in the custody of this officer.
  4. Extinguishing the cigarette was a REQUEST and not an order.
  5. By harping on about the cigarette, he illegally extended the stop and he escalated tensions at every chance he got.
  6. His claim that she was arrested the minute he pulled her over ended the minute he handed her the citation, therefore it is a false arrest, regardless of whether she was asked or ordered about her cigarette.
  7. By manhandling her during the entire encounter he very possibly/probably committed assault and/or battery.
  8. He clearly lied to his supervisors about the sequence of events and he clearly lied on his arrest report. These are felonies. It says so at the bottom of the form.
  9. Who is running this jail? Abbott and Costello? or maybe the Three Stooges?

10.Why is there a trash can in a jail cell?
11. Even if there should be a trash can(doubtful) WHY IS THERE A BAG IN IT?
12. WHERE IN THE EVERLOVING FU*K WOULD SHE GET WEED IN JAIL!!!
13. IF SHE WAS SUICIDAL WHY WASN"T SHE ON WATCH?!?!?!?!!!
14. Why was her bail so high?
15. The “defective” autopsy
16. The “totally not edited” dashcam video

Is there ANYTHING they managed to do correctly at ANY POINT in this entire incident? I thought Ferguson’s response was incompetent but American police never cease to stretch the bounds of my imagination. Christ the feds need to take this over and quickly.