Sandra Bland

Julian Castro referred to Chicago on Wednesday night’s Democratic debate by mentioning Laquan McDonald. When the topic turned to police reform, he asked about those killed by police, “What about Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Laquan McDonald, Sandra Bland, Pamela Turner, and Antonio Arce?”

Texas authorities are expected to face sharp questioning over why cellphone video Sandra Bland took during her confrontational 2015 traffic stop never publicly surfaced until now.

Cellphone video recorded by Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail in 2015 following a confrontational traffic stop, shows for the first time her perspective as a white state trooper draws his stun gun and points it at close range while ordering her out of the car.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton called for unity in the wake of the nation’s recent tragedies in Dallas, Minnesota and Louisiana while speaking in Springfield, Illinois, on Wednesday.

Signs are up officially renaming the street leading to Prairie View A&M University after Sandra Bland, the university graduate whose death in the Waller County jail last summer added to the national debate about treatment of minorities by law enforcement.

The termination of the Texas State Trooper who stopped Sandra Bland is being upheld, the Texas Department of Public Safety says.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton slammed Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Turnaround Agenda during a speech in Chicago Wednesday.

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.

Records released today by authorities in Waller County indicate that the Texas Department of Public Safety obtained a search warrant to examine Sandra Bland’s telephone.

Sen. Dick Durbin has called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the death of suburban Chicago woman Sandra Bland, who was found hanged to death in a Texas jail cell earlier this month.

Senate contender Andrea Zopp released a statement Wednesday calling for a full investigation into the case of suburban woman Sandra Bland, saying she is “deeply disturbed by (Bland’s) arrest, detention and suspicious death.”

Waller County, Texas, officials have released surveillance video Monday from inside the jail where 28-year-old Sandra Bland was found dead earlier this month.

At least 100 people turned up for a prayer walk at the Chicago-area church of suburban woman Sandra Bland in her honor after Bland was found hanged to death in a Texas jail cell.

As investigations continue into the death of a suburban Chicago woman inside a Texas jail, the district attorney in Waller County, Texas, said her death “will not be swept under the rug.”