ATTORNEY: SANDRA BLAND’S FAMILY REACHES SETTLEMENT
(Waller Co. Jail)
An attorney for the family of Sandra Bland says they’ve reached a settlement in their civil suit.
Attorney Cannon Lambert is telling media outlets the wrongful death lawsuit was settled for $1.9 million.
According to Lambert, the Waller County jail, will pay the bulk of the settlement -- $1.8 million. The settlement with the Texas Department of Public Safety was capped by state statutes at $100,000.
Bland was stopped for failing to signal a lane change in July of last year, in Waller County. The stop escalated into Bland’s arrest.
She was found dead in her jail cell in Hempstead several days later of an apparent suicide.
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