Sandra Bland’s Mom Returns to Texas to Urge Police Reforms
Style Magazine Newswire | 4/14/2017, 8:04 a.m.
Sandra Bland
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The mother of a black woman who died in a jail near Houston following a confrontational traffic stop in 2015 returned to Texas to back a sweeping police reform bill named after her daughter that influential law enforcement groups are fighting. The “Sandra Bland Act” as drafted would revamp racial profiling laws, officer training and other police accountability measures. Carrying the bill to the House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety is Houston Democrat Garnet Coleman. He said House Bill 2702 The Sandra Bland Act would make jails safer, record data on police stops, offer de-escalation and mental health training for law enforcement officers, prevent arrests for fine-only offenses, as well as additional policies that will improve our criminal justice system.
