Prosecutors Are Saying Sandra Bland Committed Suicide

Prosecutors Are Saying Sandra Bland Committed Suicide   

BHR Hollywood Reports........The cause of Sandra Bland's death was hanging; the manner of death was suicide, a prosecutor told reporters, citing preliminary autopsy results.

Sandra Bland

Warren Diepraam, a Waller County, Texas, prosecutor, provided new details Thursday to support those findings.

Bland -- a black woman whose arrest and, days later, death in custody stirred anger nationwide -- did not have injuries on her hands.

 Defensive injuries there are typical, though not always found, in cases of violent homicide, Diepraam said.

The Waller County sheriff’s office has said that Ms. Bland hanged herself on July 13, using a plastic trash bag — a conclusion that her family has called into question.