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TexasTowelie

(117,472 posts)
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 10:37 PM Sep 2016

Lawyer: $1.9 million settlement in Sandra Bland lawsuit

HOUSTON — The mother of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died last summer in a Waller County jail after a contentious traffic stop, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in her wrongful-death lawsuit, her attorney said Thursday.

Local officials insisted the agreement was not yet final, but the mother’s attorney said the deal was “absolute” and that the family’s lawsuit would be dismissed in several days.

Bland, who was from the Chicago area, died in her cell days after she was pulled over by a white state trooper for a minor traffic offense. Her death was ruled a suicide, and Bland’s family later sued Waller County and the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The $1.9 million settlement includes a requirement that the jail have a nurse or emergency medical technician on duty 24 hours a day, the family’s Chicago-based attorney, Cannon Lambert, told The Associated Press.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/lawyer-19-million-settlement-in-sandra-bland-lawsu/nsYwM/

Cross-posted in the Texas Group.

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Lawyer: $1.9 million settlement in Sandra Bland lawsuit (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP
I am pretty sure she was already received a DURHAM D Sep 2016 #1
Waller County is full of racist idiots Gothmog Sep 2016 #2
Please tell me qwlauren35 Sep 2016 #3
The police officer that arrested her was fired by the DPS, but I believe that he was put on TexasTowelie Sep 2016 #4

DURHAM D

(32,852 posts)
1. I am pretty sure she was already received a
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 11:07 PM
Sep 2016

supportive call from Hillary Clinton.

It is who she is. It is what she does.

Gothmog

(155,433 posts)
2. Waller County is full of racist idiots
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 08:46 AM
Sep 2016

I am glad that these idiots settled with the Bland family

qwlauren35

(6,279 posts)
3. Please tell me
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 01:18 PM
Sep 2016

that the man who pulled her over, and the jailers who neglected her were FIRED. No absent with paid leave...

TexasTowelie

(117,472 posts)
4. The police officer that arrested her was fired by the DPS, but I believe that he was put on
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 01:27 PM
Sep 2016

administrative leave. I don't believe that any of the jailers were fired though.

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