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Sandra Bland's Mother Wants Court Access to Witnesses
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Sandra Bland's Mother Wants Court Access to Witnesses
By Gabrielle Banks
Published 4:33 pm, Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Houston Chronicle
Chron
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/
Sandra-Bland-s-mother-wants-court-access-to-7451678.php
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/zdkh5su
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The mother of Sandra Bland is raising new questions in court about the
28-year-old's arrest and hanging death in the Waller County Jail, saying
she needs access to key witnesses who may have important information about
the case.
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In a recent court filing in her wrongful death suit in Houston federal
court, Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, is seeking the judge's permission
to begin interviewing under oath 10 or more eyewitnesses, many of whom
have already been debriefed by the county and the Texas Department of
Public Safety.
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Sandra Bland's Mother: 'True Justice Will Be Accountability'
Katlyn Smith
updated: 5/13/2016 12:02 PM
Daily Herald
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160512/news/160519546/
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Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series with Sandra Bland's
mother, Geneva Reed-Veal. In part one, Reed-Veal discusses her family's
plans for a celebration of Sandra's life and her desire to help other
mothers who have lost children.
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Nothing can really give a grieving mother closure.
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Geneva Reed-Veal knows this, even as she routinely monitors hearings in a
Texas courthouse, seeking the exact circumstances of her daughter's death.
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"You're talking about being a parent and missing your child," she says.
"And so there's no amount of anything that's ever going to come forth
that's going to satisfy me."
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Almost a year has passed since her daughter, Sandra Bland, died in small
jail about 60 miles from Houston. And Reed-Veal still cannot accept the
official account of what happened, that her daughter killed herself.
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Sandra, a 28-year-old former Naperville woman who grew up in Villa Park,
was arrested last July during a confrontational traffic stop by Brian
Encinia, a Texas state trooper who has since been fired and pleaded not
guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge.
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Attorneys who filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of her family say
the case has been "shrouded in mystery" and are seeking to question Waller
County employees in depositions about how Sandra died in their custody,
court documents show.
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Reed-Veal, joined by her attorney, Cannon Lambert, recently talked with
the Daily Herald about her concerns with the investigation into her
daughter's death. She also explained how she's become a "different person"
and why she's campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
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In the beginning, I would always say, "I got to get back to myself." No.
I'm a new self now. I can't get back there because that's a different
person than who I am right now.
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You have to embrace the fact that you are a different you, and there is no
going back to the way you were.
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I would have not have been on anybody's campaign trail. I've always been
very vocal. I have been a licensed minister for the past four years, and
so I've always been the type of person who will come out and speak, but
it's not at this magnitude.
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Now, instead of seeing the child who was just murdered, or the mom who
just lost their daughter ... now, I have to go back and see who those
people were. Now, I'm wanting to get in contact with these people. It has
caused me to have this new care and compassion that exceeds anything that
a normal human would dare step into because when you're involved with
these people and their tragedies, you then take on some of their pain.
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I think it has made me more of an aware individual and more of the type of
person who wants to advocate even more so for the underdog, the person who
is not heard.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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