A grand jury has decided no felony crime was committed by the
sheriff's office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died
in a Southeast Texas county jail last summer.
But prosecutor
Darrell Jorden says the Waller County grand jury on Monday reached no
decision on whether the trooper that arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland
should face charges.
The grand jury will return in January to consider
that. The Chicago-area woman was pulled over July 10 by a Texas
state trooper for making an improper lane change.
Dashboard camera video
showed their interaction quickly became confrontational and she was
arrested for assault.
Three days later, unable to raise about $500
bail, she was discovered dead in her cell. Relatives question the
finding that she killed herself.

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