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$ r i* q7 f2 }/ |6 H" O HEMPSTEAD, Texas -- Texas officials released video of Sandra Bland being booked and processed after her arrest in an attempt to dispel rumors of mistreatmen salomon t by jailers in the three days before she was found dead in her jail cell.Waller County Judge Trey Duhon told reporters in a presentation of the video that law enforcement officials have received death threats stemming from Internet rumors that Bland was dead before she was taken to jail. He also contradicted rumors that a mugshot circulated around the web is a photo of her after she had died.Sandra Bland was alive and well, before she was discovered hanging in her jail cell on July 13, Duhon said. There are people out there trying to put out that she was murdered and salomon deceased before she came to the Waller County Jail. airmax Former FBI official analyzes Sandra Bland arrest 01:57 Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, died in the county jail after a traffic stop by a white state trooper for failing to use a turn signal escalated into a physical confrontation. Her arrest has gotten international attention and questions about whether she was mistreated due to her race. Bland, who was from Naperville, Illinois, was in Texas interviewing for a job at nearby Prairie View AM University, a historically black college |
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