An exasperated Sandra Bland left what is now a haunting voicemail on her friend’s phone shortly after seeing a judge.
“I’m still just at a loss for words honestly at this whole process,” Bland said on the message obtained byKTRK. “How did switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this, I don’t even know.”
The 22-second voicemail left July 11, is the latest piece of the puzzle that is still unclear as to how 28-year-old Sandra Bland went from being arrested during a traffic stop on July 10 to being found dead in a Waller County, Texas jail cell some 3 days later. Bland was in the process of moving to Texas to take a job at her alma mater Prairie View A&M University when she was stopped for allegedly failing to use a traffic signal when switching lanes.
According to KTRK, Bland told her friend that she was “able to see a judge” and that her bail had been set at $5,000. The news station notes that this was one of three calls she made that day. Bland also called her sister Shante Needham, who notes that her sister was aggravated at the incident and the way it had been handled by police.
“She was very aggravated,” Needham told reporters at a news conference earlier this week. “She seemed to be in pain.”
Bland reportedly told her sister that police might have fractured her arm during the arrest. She added that her bail was set and Needham added: “I told her I would work on getting her out.”
Source: The Root |
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