Sister: Weakened ‘Sandra Bland Act’ in Texas ‘gut-wrenching’

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The sister of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail following a confrontational traffic stop with a white state trooper, says it is “gut-wrenching” that lawmakers stripped police reforms from a bill named after her sibling and are now pushing a weakened compromise that “painfully misses the mark.”
Bland’s death in 2015 was a national flashpoint in the Black Lives Matter movement — the 28-year-old Chicago woman was st