AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas grand jury that declined to indict anyone over the jailhouse death of Sandra Bland could still charge the trooper who shouted “I will light you up!” during a traffic stop resulting in her arrest, a move that would focus attention on a state police force experts say has lagged behind widely accepted U.S. law enforcement practices to head off misconduct.
A grand jury on Monday decided that no felony crime was committed by sheriff’s officers or jailers in the death of the 28-year-old Chicago-area black woman. Authorities say Bland hanged herself in jail with a plastic garbage bag three days after trooper Brian Encinia pulled her over for not signaling a lane change.
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