What Happened to Sandra Bland in Texas?

Not the model Texas prisoner 

Sure looks suicidal to me

Does This Lady Look Like She Wants to Hang Herself?

Why would you pull over a driver for failing to signal a lane change?  When was the last time I actually saw another driver in Massachusetts or New Hampshire actually signal a lane change?  Why would you demand the driver get out of her car, if you were going to issue a warning or a ticket?  Why would you subdue her with a knee to the back on the ground?  Was Sandra Bland examined with fingers in her vagina in the Texas jail? Did she make any phone calls from jail over the 3 days she was there? Who, aside from Texas employees actually saw and talked with her? Why was she in jail 3 days after failing to signal a lane change?  How long does it take to die when you have a trash bag ligature pulled across your neck? What was done with vaginal swabs during the Texas autopsy? Was semen found? Was semen tested for DNA?

Just a few questions which occur in the case of an employed young Black woman, with a college degree on the way back to her alma mater to take a job. Just that much is not a complete profile, but it is certainly not the expected profile of a woman who would wind up in jail, much less hanging by the neck unto death in jail.

The Phantom has raised the issue before about what happens in American jails.  We know Justices Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito and Kennedy have said they are more worried about the safety of the jailers than the Sandra Blands of the world.  The justices have given jailers, sheriffs, police in jail houses a carte blanche to have their way with any young woman or man they can bring into the jail in handcuffs. 

When those be wigged 18th century gentlemen wrote the Declaration of Indepence and then the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, they had fresh in mind the sorts of depredations visited upon prisoners in His Majesty's jails. Once you have a person bound by wrists and ankles, you have a power over her or him which no doctor or any authority figure in this country ordinarily possesses. 

Do we trust the people who take the jobs of police, jailer, sheriff or constable so much we are willing to allow our daughters to be hauled off to jail for failing to signal a lane change?  Oh, the officer can always claim he was insulted, assaulted, feared for his life, but where is the dash cam to document that?