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Dead in her jail cell. Authorities say she committed suicide, a claim her family rejects. The family has filed a wrongful death suit and wants charges against the officer who arrested her. The whole process from the secretive nature of it to the evidence presented to the lack of involvement of the family screams of a coverup. We feel like we have been shut out of this process from the very beginning. We are at the door knocking, waiting for the door to open, for the answers that we have asked fo...

Anyone over her jail cell death. Bland, an africanamerican woman, was arrested in july after she allegedly failed to signal a lane change. She was jailed with bond set at 5000. Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell. Authorities say she committed suicide, a claim her family rejects. The family has filed a wrongful death suit and wants charges against the officer who arrested her. The whole process from the secretive nature of it to the evidence presented to the lack of involvement...

Anyone over her jail cell death. Bland, an africanamerican woman, was arrested in july after she allegedly failed to signal a lane change. She was jailed with bond set at 5000. Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell. Authorities say she committed suicide, a claim her family rejects. The family has filed a wrongful death suit and wants charges against the officer who arrested her. The whole process from the secretive nature of it to the evidence presented to the lack of involvement...

The Christian festival of Easter will be gone under Stormont reforms of the licencing laws, church leaders have warned. Presbyterian and Methodist leaders also warned of a tsunami of addiction issues in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis. And they have urged MLAs to include legal protections for staff who do not want to have to work at Easter. Methodist minister David Clements warned of a "tsunami of harm" coming from alcohol abuse. "We do not know what the outcome will be in a years time, p...