Daily Topics - Wednesday July 22nd, 2015
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Having watched the video, I think Sandra Bland was probably alive when she arrived at the police station, but it's disturbing that you can't hear her after a certain point, even though very late in the video you hear a cop tell her that she's under arrest and will be taken to a certain location. But a plan to fake her suicide at that point is too far fetched and would require too many co-conspirators.
So it seems the real mystery is what happened at the jail. Even if it was suicide, it would be because of whatever the police did to her. It obviously wasn't her plan to get a new job and move to a new town just to kill herself before her first day of work. When you consider that people have been convicted of getting others to kill themselves, this will turn out bad for this police department either way.