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  I am not yet persuaded that Bland is notable. I am persuaded that her death was. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 22:30, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

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Sandra Annette Bland is a known activist born on February 7, 1987, in Naperville Illinois. She was raised by a single mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, and is the second youngest of five daughters. Growing up in Illinois, she became an active church member at DuPage African Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of ten in where she began playing the Trombone.

Vocation

At the start of 2015, Sandra Bland began to post a series of videos under the title "Sandy Speaks". In the these videos, she mainly made them based on her own emotional struggles, police brutality, and inattentive parents. Her main platform was Facebook in which she created a hashtag to her posts, #Sandraspeaks. Aside from this, she worked solo on the Jackie Robinson Little League petitions, in which she would post on her page that almost no people of color signed. Sandras main message was for the white people of Hempstead to understand what they and their ancestors have done to her race.

Bland was always aware of her rights. In 2015, she became concerned that an all-star team of black Little League boys in Chicago.The team, Jackie Robinson West, was been stripped of their U.S title after it was discovered that some players didn't live in the teams district. Bland decided to go to the mall with petitions demanding the title to be returned. Security had urged her to leave but she cited her rights and refused to leave.

Death

Prior to her death, Bland decided to return to Texas for a job interview at Prairie View A&M University as a community outreach coordinator at her alma mater.Unfortunately, as she was exiting the university, she was pulled over by Brain Encinia for switching lanes with placing a signal on. The white male trooper had ordered her to extinguish her cigarette in which she refused to. Bland recited her rights but Ecinia decided to draw his stun gun. Bland decided to step out of the vehicle and was taken to the ground by Officer Encinia. She was later handcuffed and arrest for assaulting a police officer.

At Waller County Jail in Hempstead Texas, her bail was set at $5,000. She was placed in a cell alone due to law enforcement deeming her a high risk for other inmates. On July 13, 2015, she was founded hanged in a jail cell three days after being arrested. Her family questioned her death as they knew she was not the type of person to commit suicide. In " Say Her Name ", HBO documentary series about Sandra Bland, Shavon Cooper, her sister claimed, ""Where she was did not have any cameras, I would think that would be strange. Then how are you monitoring your inmates?".This raised questions to the public as she wa snot being surveillanced while being " high risk" to other inmates. Her mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, claimed "You don't kill yourself when you know you're about to start a new job". Sandras main reason for returning to Hempstead was to interview for a new job. This raises questions on whether her death was a suicide or not. Regardless of her death being marked as a suicide, law enforcement did not have her under survielleance.