Interview with Sandra Bland's sister, Sharon Cooper

[marym625]

This just came out a couple hours ago. The first video is what was shown on the local ABC news. Below that is the full interview with her sister.

http://abc7chicago.com/news/sandra-bland-family-awaiting-2nd-autopsy/874337/

The Texas coroner is not just asking for the body back, they want Sandra Bland's body preserved in case they need anything further. Seems like an obvious attempt to cause problems for her family.

A woman that was in the next cell stated:

"I don't think the guards did anything. I mean it's a tragedy either way," Pyle said. "I don't think she should have been in the other tank, alone by herself... because we're over here, we're trying to keep each other laughing all the time, and she's over there hearing that. That would make anybody sad."

Why wasn't Sandra Bland in the cell with the other women? Judging from the video, I'm guessing one cell for white women and a different one for black women.

They found a leaf in a cut on Ms. Bland's back. After 3 days! How fucking hard to he push her? That officer belongs in jail.

I don't know what happened in that cell but the Sheriff and his cohorts killed her. They are responsible for her death.

This fight is far from over. And nothing else should fucking matter but ending the genocide by the different States, localities and law enforcement agencies of people of color. It's government sanctioned murder.

Chastising anyone but the murders helps no one. If you don't like what happened with NN or BLM or Bernie Sanders, accomplishes nothing. The conversation has changed with the politicians in a good way and that's all we should be talking about. Ending the genocide.

[Chemisse]

1. If there was ever a murder charge (or a civil suit), new questions could come up.

And having the body preserved and buried (as opposed to cremated) would allow both sides to investigate further, if needed.

I find it VERY odd that she had a large amount of marijuana in her body - after 3 days in jail.

[marym625]

2. especially since she was alone

Just don't buy it

I don't think they wanted the family to bury her. That's how I took it.

If nothing else, that officer violated her rights and brutalized her. There better be a trial

[sufrommich]

3. Did you mean to post this in GD ? nt

[marym625]

4. nope shit

I will self delete. Thank you

[sufrommich]

6. I've done it before too. nt

[marym625]

7. Oh wait

I thought you meant I had posted in GD. No, because of the last paragraph I put it here

[sufrommich]

9. Ok, got it. nt

[marym625]

10. Thank you though

I don't think anything about this stuff is going to be posted without the primary coming into. Too tied together right now

[sufrommich]

13. You're probably right. nt

[Downwinder]

5. They used to wear costumes and incite others

to do their killing for protection. Then they took over the system. Now they wear uniforms and let the system protect them.

[marym625]

8. exactly

It's got to end and it's the only thing we should be discussing.

The badges shouldn't give impunity to murderers

[Downwinder]

11. She was targeted, without question.

There has to be a back story. Perhaps from her undergraduate days. Or through the fusion center up there.

[marym625]

12. I think she was pulled over for being black in Texas

With Illinois plates. I think when he was in the vehicle, there was conversation and googling and the YouTube she posted was found.

And that was her death warrant

[Downwinder]

14. i've just lived in small town Texas too long.

I'm cynical. It is bigger than that. Someone was scared of her coming to town. The trooper was an errand boy.

[marym625]

15. That's some serious shit.

I wonder if there's any way to prove that. I want to hear the exchange while he was in the car talking to dispatch

[Downwinder]

16. Watches on Occupy, AIM, and the Panthers were all

coordinated, I would expect the same for BLM. If so a FOIA request to Chicago and Houston fusion centers would be in order.

[marym625]

17. I will do that

I will have to find out exactly what to request but then I will.

Thank you

[Stardust]

18. "...and the YouTube she posted was found." What YouTube did she post? I missed that. eom

[marym625]

19. I'm trying to find it

There are so many YouTube videos about her now, it's buried somewhere. I will post when I find it

[Stardust]

20. Thank you. I ran into the same thing when I searched for it. Please don't devote a lot of time

trying to find it.

I'm curious what her video was about, but it's not important enough for you to spend time tring to find it. Thanks anyway.

[marym625]

22. I just posted it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027009409

[Stardust]

27. Thank you.

[sabrina 1]

21. The murders of African Americans have been going on for a long, long time, by cops.

Al Sharpton finally made the NYC cops infamous when he forced the issue into the media.

So many murders, and so few held accountable.

Michael Brown's murder was just one more crime, but for some reason it was the breaking point, maybe because of Social Media, I don't know.

I really do not have words to say what I want to say about this genocide, and imo, that is what it is.

Living in NY I remember the murders and brutality of so many and even when they madethe news, NOTHING happens.

Any nation that has allowed this to go on for this long, has something seriously wrong with it.

Cops murdering US citizens at this rate amounts to war against the people, imo.

I remember when we thought the Rodney King beating was handled so badly, that things could not be worse than the injustice in that case.

But at least in that case when the local system failed the FEDERAL GOVT stepped in and filed charges.

Why are there no FEDERAL CHARGES in several of these cases? What good is an investigation that results in nothing more than a report?

What is the difference in Rodney King's case re the Feds and ALL of these murders that just don't STOP even AFTER all the publicity AND the formation of a movement briinging attention to them, that they never got before??

Things are far WORSE now than when the Rodney King case took place.

FORCE the FEDERAL GOVT to stop just 'looking at' these murders, and to start filing charges.

This cozy little system the local authorities have whereby a cop murders someone and instead of the Prosecution filing charges, they send it to a GJ. GJs will not hand down indictments, so the cop gets off.

NO MORE LOCAL GJs. Murder needs to be prosecuted by the PROSECUTOR. We KNOW why they won't do it, the DOJ's reaction to all this is just unacceptable. Totally.

I was following a blog for years that kept track of cop murders and other forms of brutality against mostly POOR Black victims and/or other POOR minorities, breaking down doors, using DRUGS as a pretext, killing pets, sometimes innocent people.

Every single American needs to be involved in this until it STOPS.

I was glad to see finally some attention to the Michael Brown case initially by the MSM but feared that it would not last and it would be forgotten, like all the others.

We should be ashamed as a nation. Thoroughly ashamed and ANGRY. Angry enough to do something about it.

There are no adequate words to describe how I feel, and have felt for years, about these horrific injustices and what it says about this country that they are tolerated.

Our whole criminal justice system, especially our Police Depts need to be taken apart and rebuilt from top to bottom. There is a sickness in this country and it doesn't seem to matter who is in power, nothing gets done about it, leading ME to believe that it is exactly the way it is supposed to be.

Unless the people finally say 'enough'. So far I'm not seeing that, I'm seeing politicization of it for nefarious purposes, and have seen it before, lots of pretense and politically correct, scripted statements from politicians, and then when the elections are over, not a single word or action to actually address it, and the killings not only continue, they have ESCALATED.

[marym625]

23. "Every single American needs to be involved in this until it STOPS! "

Amen to that!

The DoJ has been horrible in these murders. Just horrible. No excuse. And the cases that Holder passed up should be reevaluated.

[sabrina 1]

24. Yes, I've said this for years, and to see it being politicized sickens me.

Because nothing is more likely to prevent that from happening, than USING it for political purposes.

But it isn't the first time that this has happened, and I hope that the courageous activists from BLM who I have been following since they began, and who got little attention here on DU sadly, make sure they are NOT part of the politics of this campaign. Unity of all people who have a conscience is what will be needed to end this.

I am amazed at the sudden interest by a few people on partisan blogs in this issue who I never noticed having much interest before. Shameful imo.

[marym625]

25. I hate the divisiveness

And I will ignore it because it does nothing to help. Nothing. I'm just glad that this conversation has started. I don't give a shit about how it started because it's irrelevant.

We just need to steer the conversation to what is happening in this country and how to stop it. I think the first step is some kind of federal law that has a federal investigation take over of every single death in a stop or incarceration. And it should be a brand new investigation entity. Not a current law enforcement agency that will have bias. Maybe an agency that does nothing else.

[sabrina 1]

26. Stick to the issues, ignore the partisan politics that focuses on political

usage of issues.

This is what they want, thread after thread on NOTHING that is going to stop this. That's how you know the difference between those who actually care about the ISSUE and those who see it as a way to either slam other candidates or take advantage of it for their purposes, produces nothing to resolve this. I see lots of attacks back and forth, but little about the victims or about forcing the system, especially the Federal Govt, to step in and STOP IT.

Just saying that at this point, produces DEFENSES of the DOJ rather than thinking only of the victims and you know how different the responses to a demand for justice that only the Fed. Gov can do, would be entirely different if the DOJ was Republican at this point. Shameful to politicize something like this. It is beyond reprehensible.