Remembering Sandra Bland 7 years after her death

AUSTIN, Texas — Immediately is Sandra Bland Day in Austin. The day was proclaimed in 2019 to recollect Bland, whose suspicious 2015 loss of life sparked outrage.

Bland died in a Waller County, Texas jail cell in 2015 on the age of 28, however her loss of life remains to be underneath hypothesis to this present day.

She was pulled over by state trooper Brian Encinia and was later arrested. She was discovered lifeless in her jail cell three days afterward July 13, 2015.

Her loss of life has led many to analyze circumstances of racial injustice and racial profiling. Bland’s household based the Sandra Bland Center For Racial Injustice to supply assets and advocacy for households in comparable positions.

Bland’s loss of life was dominated a suicide. Later, Waller County officials would express regret at not putting Bland on suicide watch after she expressed in a questionairre kind that she had tried suicide earlier than. She additionally reported she was feeling depressed on the time.

The video of Bland’s encounter with Encinia, shot on Bland’s mobile phone, sparked up debate once more in 2019 from Texas politicians Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro through the 2020 presidential race. The 2 known as for renewed investigations within the case. 

Bland’s title is commonly remembered when referring to victims of racial injustice and systemic racism similar to Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and plenty of others. The Say Their Names database of victims’ names exists to doc and keep in mind their tales.