Texas Officials Release Video in Jailhouse Death Case

The sheriff’s office in Waller County, Texas, has released three hours of video from a jail camera that shows the area outside the cell where a young African-American woman died this month. Sandra Bland, 28, of Chicago was stopped for a minor traffic violation July 10 and was arrested for assaulting an officer. Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell, and relatives, friends and civil rights activists continue to demand an outside investigation of what happened. In the...

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