https://communityimpact.com/houston/katy/public-safety/2020/07/23/experts-reflect-5-years-after-sandra-blands-death-in-waller-county-jail/
As of recently, Breonna Taylor is one of the many women, black women, that have been wrongfully murdered in the spread of police brutality. They are all taunting stories to hear about these black women dying in vain because they may “match the description” of someone that they are looking for. One woman that I cannot still get over is Sandra Bland.
Even though a lot of different sites state that Bland was found hanging in her cell to look like it was done willingly by herself, to this day, it still seems like foreplay was done in her death. By the way her locs were placed in the picture, also to the way her eyes looked so lifeless in the picture it looked a little “staged”. Since her passing, they have released the Sandra Bland Act in 2017, calling to ban police officers from stopping drivers on traffic charges to link to other crimes.
Though this act was released, I still feel that as myself being a black woman, I am still distraught and fearful of traffic stops as I’m traveling on the road. Hopefully as a society we can end this target on black women and men and realize we are stronger together, all races, then apart.