"Being black is very, very hard," said Sandra Bland in a video made just months before her death. Bland was just another vibrant, passionate 28-year-old who was sick and tired of seeing her people come up short in the world. Using the hashtag #SandySpeaks, she posted videos on her social media accounts in which she discussed issues affecting the African American community, such as police brutality and the constant plight of African Americans. In fact, her very last Tweet, which was made on June 18, offered prayers and condolences to the nine individuals who were gunned down by a young white man at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. last month.

Bland's death took place in Hempstead, Texas, where she allegedly committed suicide in her jail cell. According to reports, in her interview with jail officials she mentioned trying to kill herself last year, the Texas sheriff who oversees the jail said last Wednesday. However, friends and family say the idea of Sandra committing suicide is unthinkable. Bland, who had recently moved from the Chicago area, took a job at Prairie View A&M and was on the road to starting fresh with her new endeavor. Who knew that her life would be cut short just days later due to a minor traffic violation?

In one of the videos that surfaced the internet, it appears that Bland was pulled over for not signaling while switching lanes. The routine stop escalated to a shouting match between her and the officer because she refused to put her cigarette out, which then led to her arrest. The video definitely raised a lot of questions as to whether or not she should have been arrested in the first place. In another video that was recorded by an anonymous by-stander, you can see Bland being slammed to the ground by two state troopers while she criticized them for the arrest.

“I can’t even feel my arm. You just slammed my head into the ground, do you not care about that? I can’t even hear. He slammed my fucking head into the ground. All of this for a traffic signal. I swear to God, all of this for a traffic signal,” Bland says on the recording.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Waller County sheriff Glenn Smith says Bland was charged with assault of a public servant and was arraigned over the weekend, when her bond was set at $5,000. A female jailer found her about 9 a.m. Monday. Paramedics were called and CPR was administered, he said. She was pronounced dead shortly afterward. Apparently, Bland was found hanging from a noose made from a plastic bag in her cell at the Waller County Jail. Medical examiners have recently ruled her death a suicide, and an autopsy report that was released on Friday also said she died by suicide. However, both the Texas Rangers and the FBI are conducting formal investigations into her death and arrest. According to CNN, her family attorney says she was ecstatic to start her new job at her alma mater in Texas and her family suggests there was no reason to think Bland was depressed. What's more confusing is that Bland was not diagnosed with depression, nor was she on any sort of medication that even suggests or confirms she was suffering from depression.

Since Bland's death, many speculate that the video of her arrest was edited, and whether or not she truly committed suicide, as well as other major inconsistencies in her case. We know that the (re)released "unaltered" video was shorter than the original. We know there are inconsistencies in the booking documents around her history of suicide and the medication she was taking for her epilepsy. We know that Bland’s family received a text that warrants questions about the quality of her initial autopsy, specifically that the assistant district attorney in Waller County has called the autopsy “defective." However, nothing seems to make sense to anyone. Every new detail that has been leaked raises the idea that her death was systematically constructed to defy rationality and seems like a conspiracy in theory. All of the evidence aims at a cover-up from start to finish instead of just a suicide.

All of this speculation and confusion all point to #WhatHappenedToSandraBland, the hashtag all over social media. Just like Sandra's family, we all want answers.

"Please keep tweeting, keep Facebooking and Instagraming," said Sharon Cooper, Bland's sister. "Keep utilizing the hashtag #JusticeforSandy ... Keep hashtagging #SayHerName. The minute you forget her name, you forget her character," said Cooper.

And the minute you forget her character, you forget that just like #AllLivesMatter and #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackWomenMatter too!

For more information on Sandra Bland , please check out these websites:

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