Sandra Bland’s Jailhouse Death Is Being Investigated By A Racist Sheriff AND A Racist Prosecutor

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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/07/17/sandra-blands-jailhouse-death-is-being-investigated-by-a-racist-sheriff-and-a-racist-prosecutor/
First of all, Sheriff Smith, was elected in 2008, just one year after being suspended from his last job after accusations of racism came to light. Smith lost that job in Hempstead, Texas, after he and four other officers forced young black men to submit to a strip search after the officers’ drug raid found nothing. Apparently the officers, upset that they weren’t going get to arrest these men, decided to get their rocks off by humiliating them instead. A year later he was elected sheriff of Waller County and sure seems like the perfect guy to “protect and serve” a county where nearly 30 percent of the population is black.

Then there is the prosecutor of Waller, Elton Mathis, who threatened an African-American pastor last year and used racial metaphors while doing so.