Glenn Smith

Sandra Bland

How a traffic stop ended with a young black woman dead in a Texas jail

Justice

The FBI has been called in to investigate the hanging death of Sandra Bland, a young, black woman in a Texas jail. The official cause is “suicide,” but her family finds that incomprehensible. And many are questioning how the Texas police handled what should have been a routine traffic stop.

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