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    jrfunkensteinGabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:50am

    ‘He did not explain why the jail, in light of that information, neglected to put her on a suicide watch.’

    Ummm....perhaps because SHE NEVER FUCKING TOLD THEM THAT?

    So these fucking Killer Keystone Kops now want people to believe that this is information that Ms. Bland would opt not to tell her family, but was only too happy to tell the cops who she knew had unjustly stopped, detained, harassed, assaulted, arrested and imprisoned her? And lo and behold she winds up ‘discovered’ to have committed suicide days later because she wasn’t placed on suicide watch because she also allegedly told them she was just pissed, not depressed?

    What in the fucking fuck, America?

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      flamingolingojrfunkenstein
      7/23/15 9:05am

      Agreed, compared to doctoring dashcam footage, faking paperwork and lying about a jailhouse interview are nothing. Though as with the video, the cover-up here is laughably bad for the reasons you mention.

      Unfortunately a lot of bootlickers and racists (who will swarm out from reddit/stormfront/wherever any second now to flood the comments here with bullshit) will tout this as definitive ‘proof’ that the cops did nothing wrong.

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      SnapHappyjrfunkenstein
      7/23/15 9:13am

      This times eleventy!!!!!

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    SpringSprungGabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:51am

    So a previous bout with depression and attempted suicide isn’t enough to warrant a suicide watch, yet it is enough to use as an excuse as to why a person ends up dead in your jail cell. Mmmkay.

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      echinodermSpringSprung
      7/23/15 8:56am

      I’m on your side here, but this is a little unfair. I have a suicide attempt in my history, but I do not feel the need to be on suicide watch for the rest of my life. However, if I were ever found dead of an apparent suicide, I can only imagine that the history would come up.

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      SpringSprungechinoderm
      7/23/15 8:59am

      That is true. I guess my point is that I don’t believe she ever told them she was depressed/attempted suicide before. Those documents they brought up could have been falsified and I thought I read somewhere that she had said in another place that she was not suffering from depression.

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    neuroradical4Gabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:46am

    gosh. as someone who has attempted suicide and has a history of depression, I’m just now realizing how easy it would be for someone to get away with murdering me

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      Invernessneuroradical4
      7/23/15 8:54am

      Not to mention...for anybody, being arrested for no good reason is enough to push even an otherwise healthy person to extremes.

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      TayTayTrutherneuroradical4
      7/23/15 8:56am

      I just came to the same realization...

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    festivusaziliGabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:50am

    “No, we didn’t kill her. We were WAY too busy being negligent to find the time to kill anybody.”

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      benjaminalloverfestivusazili
      7/23/15 9:25am

      I think what’s interesting is that people seem split on whether they think she really wrote about her miscarriage and previous suicide attempt on the form, but universally don’t trust the police and hold them responsible for her death. Which is the larger point; they’re responsible for what happens to her in their care at the very least, and probably guilty of malice in addition to the gross negligence we know about.

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      festivusazilibenjaminallover
      7/23/15 9:30am

      That’s basically where I am at with it. I don’t know what happened. She may have killed herself, or the cops may have done something we don’t know about yet. But whatever happened, her death is a tragedy and a symbol of the way a tiny mistake (changing lanes without a signal) can spiral into a catastrophe once the justice system gets involved.

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    flamingolingoGabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 9:09am

    And, people, for the love of all that is good and rational, please do not bring SuperSweet100 out of the greys.

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      festivusaziliflamingolingo
      7/23/15 9:14am

      And remember that the dismiss button is your friend. Use it when appropriate.

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      benjaminalloverflamingolingo
      7/23/15 9:32am

      Or queerchilds/Ayn Rand’s whatever.

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    NefertittiesGabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:46am
    GIF

    A private off-camera confession of a prior suicide attempt?

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      MajesticSeaFlapFlapNefertitties
      7/23/15 8:55am

      My thoughts as well. How hard would it be to falsify those documents?

      Especially the one done in a different pen where she suddenly IS very depressed now where in the earlier documents that she signed she stated that she was not.

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      r31yaMajesticSeaFlapFlap
      7/23/15 9:00am

      Considering ferguson prisoner once got convicted and get extended jail time due to “desecrating officer uniform” by bleeding on it when he got beat up by police officer in jail.

      I believe in high possibility of falsified testimony by the warden as they capable for something much worse.

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    It'sNotEasyBeingGreyGabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:54am

    If it was suicide, the jail and police are still at fault as 1) She shouldn’t have been arrested to start with and 2) She should have been adequately supervised and/or not had access to the tools to commit suicide (tie off points, etc). It’s a tragedy even if it was suicide.

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      Stan SitwellIt'sNotEasyBeingGrey
      7/23/15 9:08am

      Yup, which is what I believed happened, it’s quite believable. I can’t believe how the commenters here double down repeatedly making these bold claims that the entire police force is corrupt and trying to cover up a cop going into her cell and strangling her to death.

      On what planet is that more believable than this woman having an awfully rough and unfair couple of days and finding a way to commit suicide?

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      It'sNotEasyBeingGreyStan Sitwell
      7/23/15 9:22am

      I mean, it does need thoroughly investigated, as do all deaths in part life custody. And I 110% understand the family disbelieving it. I don’t understand the entire internet bursting into full on conspiracy theory mode.

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    ManchuCandidateGabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:50am

    “No no no no. We didn’t kill her. Not all. We were only criminally negligent.”

    /several seconds of painful silence/

    “Uh... wait, what?”

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      festivusaziliManchuCandidate
      7/23/15 8:56am

      we made the almost the exact same comment at the same time. Minds think alike.

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      Tommy Craggs at the AlamoManchuCandidate
      7/23/15 8:57am

      I don’t know whether to be happy they didnt kill her or sad because they are grossly incompetent.

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    I Have No Account and I Must PostGabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:47am

    Cops Say Whatever They Think Will Get Them Out of This Shit

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeeneI Have No Account and I Must Post
      7/23/15 9:22am

      I pretty much had the same reaction.

      “Cops say...” *doesn’t believe another word*

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    김치전!Gabrielle Bluestone
    7/23/15 8:49am

    Oh, just like she kicked the arresting officer? Thanks, Sheriff Trustworthy!

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      Grungehamster김치전!
      7/23/15 9:34am

      I still hear people claim she assaulted the officer, it was just that she waited until he took her out of the field of view of the camera. These are usually the same people who say they can’t blame him for getting mad about the cigarette after she took a drag and blew it into his face and that she was being belligerent when he pulled her over and he showed restraint for putting up with it as long as he did.

      Real common clay of the new West types.

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      The Original SunshineGrungehamster
      7/23/15 9:52am

      “she waited until he took her out of the field of view of the camera”. That was prescient of her.

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