Black Lives Matter Mural Coming To Sandra Bland Parkway In Prairie View
The stretch of road was renamed after Bland, whose death fueled national outrage about police brutality.
Watch CBS News
The stretch of road was renamed after Bland, whose death fueled national outrage about police brutality.
There were heated exchanges Friday as Texas authorities discussed why cellphone video Sandra Bland took during a controversial traffic stop in 2015 was never made public.
Cellphone video recorded by Sandra Bland shows for the first time her perspective as a white state trooper draws his stun gun and points it at her.
The mother of a black woman who died in a jail near Houston following a confrontational traffic stop returned to Texas to back a police reform bill named after her daughter that influential law enforcement groups are fighting.
Governor Greg Abbott is being criticized since he responded to concerns about possible racial profiling along the border with Mexico by pointing to white drivers getting stopped in the state's wealthiest cities.
Records show the number of suicides in county jails has declined since changes were implemented that include a more comprehensive mental health screening of inmates.
Voters in a Houston-area county that drew national scrutiny when a black motorist was found dead in jail after a contentious traffic stop will keep their sheriff.
A federal judge formally dismissed the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas county jail days after her arrest by a state trooper for a traffic stop that became contentious.
Waller County commissioners on Wednesday formally approved the Houston-area county's portion of the $1.9 million settlement.
The family of Sandra Bland has reportedly reached a settlement in their federal wrongful death lawsuit.
A police officer in the small Texas town where Sandra Bland died in a jail cell says the county's top prosecutors threatened to end his career if he came forward with what he says is evidence of wrongdoing.
Vigils and ceremonies are planned to make the one-year anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a Texas jail cell after a traffic stop.
Several recommendations issued by a panel investigating the small-town Texas jail where Sandra Bland died could be difficult to implement, including a call to separate sheriff and jail operations.
Signs are up officially renaming the street leading to Prairie View A&M University after Sandra Bland, the university graduate who was found dead in a Waller County jail cell after being arrested at a traffic stop.
A panel reviewing the jail where Sandra Bland died last summer after being taken into custody has called for a major overhaul of its procedures and facilities.
A fired Texas trooper pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of misdemeanor perjury stemming from his arrest last summer of Sandra Bland, a black woman who was later found dead in a county jail.
A fired Texas trooper is facing arraignment on a misdemeanor perjury charge related to his arrest last summer of Sandra Bland, a black woman who was later found dead in a county jail.
A judge has ordered the FBI to allow Sandra Bland's family to review the report of the Texas Rangers investigation into the woman's death while in custody. The FBI contended that it was protected under law enforcement privilege.
The state trooper who pulled over Sandra Bland and now faces a perjury charge remains on the payroll even as a federal judge heard arguments Thursday on whether a wrongful death lawsuit should be delayed.
Geneva Reed-Veal will join the Democratic presidential candidate at a Feb. 17 voter mobilization event in Chicago.
Sandra Bland's family is asking a judge to reject arguments from Texas that state Department of Public Safety reports related to the black woman's arrest, jailing and death last summer should be withheld from them.
The indictment and expected firing of the Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, a black woman who later died in jail, was a "bittersweet" moment for her sister.
Following the Waller County grand jury indictment of Trooper Brian Encinia today, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) will begin termination proceedings to discharge him from the department.
Prosecutors say the trooper lied in a written report about the traffic stop.
A grand jury has resumed considering the case of Sandra Bland, the black Chicago-area woman who died in a Texas county jail three days after her arrest in a traffic stop last summer.
