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Texas: City Council Approves Renaming Street “Sandra Bland Parkway”

HeadlineAug 26, 2015

And in Texas, the Prairie View City Council has approved a measure to rename one of the city’s central thoroughfares the “Sandra Bland Parkway,” in honor of the 28-year-old African-American woman who was found dead in a Waller County jail cell following her arrest last month. Bland was arrested on July 10 by Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia, who alleged that Bland failed to signal a lane change. Dash cam video of her arrest shows Encinia forcibly removing Bland from her car and threatening to “light [her] up.” She can later be heard accusing the officer of slamming her head into the ground. Authorities have said Bland committed suicide in jail, a claim her family has disputed. On Tuesday, hundreds of people marched from Sandra Bland’s alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, to City Hall, where hours later the council approved the plan to rename the street where Bland was pulled over “Sandra Bland Parkway.”

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