Lawmakers hear emotional testimony from Sandra Bland’s mother about bill to change jail standards

Two years after Sandra Bland was found dead in a Waller County jail cell after her arrest on a minor traffic violation, her mother came to the Texas Capitol to tell lawmakers to pass a bill named for her daughter that changes the “broken system” she said contributed to her daughter’s death. “I need you all to really think about what you have the ability and the power to do today,” Geneva Reed-Veal told lawmakers on the House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety. “While today I can only stand up for my daughter, because that is my duty…READ MORE