Last Friday, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was arrested during a traffic stop by Texas state troopers in Waller County for allegedly displaying combative behavior. The troopers arrested Bland and took her ...

HOUSTON -- The Texas Department of Transportation has released video footage showing the arrest of a black woman three days before she was found dead inside a Waller County jail cell. The video posted ...

Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, has been indicted on a perjury charge, prosecutors said Wednesday. Bland, an African-American woman, was found dead in her cell three ...

A Texas councilman was stunned with a Taser in front of his Prairie View home Thursday during an incident involving police—one of whom was reportedly involved in Sandra Bland’s arrest. Suggested ...

Sandra Bland asked why she was being detained at least 14 times during the routine traffic stop that resulted in her arrest and subsequent death in a Texas jail cell, according to newly released dash ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sandra Bland was arrested in Texas in 2015 and found dead in her jail cell days later. Now, lawmakers are introducing the Sandra Bland Act in honor of the Chicago area native. Its ...

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas -- The attorney representing Sandra Bland's family is asking the Prairie View Police Department to give up all dash cam video and other information from her traffic stop. Attorney ...

A Texas city councilman who was shot with a Taser in the same city where Sandra Bland was arrested over the summer said his arrest on Friday was "unwarranted." Prairie View Councilman Jonathan Miller ...

CHICAGO, IL -- The mother of Sandra Bland says her daughter's arrest and death in a Texas jail cell should have resulted in something more than a perjury charge against the white state trooper who ...

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The “Sandra Bland Act” passed in Texas this month, but Bland’s family isn’t happy with the approved bill. Bland’s sister and family spokeswoman, Sharon Cooper, said the family was disappointed in the ...

DALLAS — The Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland after a confrontation that began with a traffic stop was once cautioned about "unprofessional conduct" in a 2014 incident while he was still a ...