"We"re upset and disappointed" - Sandra Bland"s sister

ROUGH CUT (no reporter narration) STORY: A Texas grand jury decided on Monday not to issue indictments relating to the death of an African-American woman who died by hanging in an apparent suicide in her jail cell, a special prosecutor said. A Waller County grand jury also decided not to indict any members of the jail staff in the case of Sandra Bland, 28, who was found dead in her cell three days after being jailed for a traffic stop this summer, said Darrell Jordan, a special prosecutor in the case. The grand jury will reconvene in January to deliberate other matters in the case, Jordan said. Sandra Bland"s family said Tuesday that they didn"t have faith in the grand jury process. "We"re upset and we"re disappointed, and that"s what we feel collectively as a family. I sit here and I tell you that we don"t have faith in a grand jury process because there is no feeling that it will be, you know, impartial or unbiased based off of the secretive nature of it," Sharon Cooper, Sandra Bland"s sister said. "The bottom line is that they get to cherrypick what evidence they submit and cherry-pick what evidence they withhold from the grand jury. When they say that you "can indict a ham sandwich," it"s because you can. If you want an indictment, as a prosecutor in a grand jury proceeding, you can get it, but if you don"t, you can do that too," Cannon Lambert, the family"s attorney said. In August, the family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death suit against her jailers, a Texas trooper, and a sheriff"s office, accusing them of being responsible for her hanging. Bland was pulled over in her car on July 10 by state trooper Brian Encinia for failing to signal a lane change in Prairie View, about 50 miles northwest of Houston. The stop escalated into a verbal altercation after Encinia asked Bland to put out a cigarette and she refused. Bland was arrested and charged with assaulting an officer, a felony. The discovery of Bland"s body in her cell three days later with a trash bag around her neck raised suspicions of racist treatment.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/12/22/were-upset-and-disappointed-sandra-bland?videoId%3D366778978