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Why Do We Need Extra Evidence To Believe Sandra Bland’s Systemic Murder?

Ezinne Ukoha
6 min readMay 13, 2019

Four years after the systemic murder of Sandra Bland, who would’ve turned 29, this past February, we are unexpectedly greeted with the damning reminder of how Black lives never matter when thuggish White cops collide with victims, who are tragically silenced during their struggle for survival.

The new video footage, frantically recorded by a young Black woman, who was pulled over by a vicious Texas State Trooper, graphically depicts the violence that was unleashed on Sandra Bland, by an armed terrorizer, who was hellbent on punishing his victim for daring to exercise her privilege as a law-abiding citizen, who absolutely understood her rights.

Sandra Bland

Unfortunately these harrowing encounters never end well.

In the summer of 2016, Korryn Gaines, the 23-year-old mother from Randallstown, Maryland was gunned down in her living room, during a home invasion by Baltimore police officers, who were determined to wage a bloody battle in the name of a traffic violation.

Their suspect did have a gun, and despite trying to shield her 5-year-old son from the hail of bullets, her poor child got caught…

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