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Sandra Bland Voicemail : “How did switching lanes turn into all of this?”

Sandra Bland said she couldn’t believe what she was going through in a haunting voicemail she left to her friend before she was found dead in her jail cell.

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Sandra Bland Voicemail : "How Did Switching Lanes Turn Into All of This?"
Sandra Bland

Sandra Bland said she couldn’t believe what she was going through in a haunting voicemail she left to her friend and sister before she was found dead in her jail cell.

“I’m still just at a loss for words honestly at this whole process,” she said on the message obtained by ABC News owned station KTRK. “How did switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this, I don’t even know.”

Sandra Bland voicemail

The voicemail message lasted for about 22 seconds and was made after she had an initial court appearance in Texas following her July 10 arrest.

She said that she “able to see the judge” and her bail was set at $5,000 during the July 11 appearance.

This call was one of three that Bland made Saturday afternoon after she appeared in court, Waller County Judge Trey Duhon, told ABC News. Bland called the friend, her sister and a bail bondsman that afternoon, Duhon said.

The voicemail is the last piece to a puzzle to what happened to Sandra Bland before she was found dead in her jail from what authorities say was a suicide. Bland was in the process of moving to Texas after accepting a job at her alma mater Prairie View A&M University, when she was stopped for allegedly failing to signal when switched lanes.

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Bland also called her sister Shante Needham, who notes that Bland was irritated about the incident and the way it had been handled by police.

“She was very aggravated,” Needham told reporters at a news conference earlier this week. “She seemed to be in pain.”

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Bland reportedly told her sister that police might have fractured her arm during the arrest. She added that her bail was set and Needham added, “I told her I would work on getting her out.”

The third call was placed to a bail bondsman.

According to CNN, on the morning of July 13, Bland asked to make a phone call at 8 a.m. There is no record of Bland ever making the call. Around 9 a.m., Bland was found hanging in her jail cell.


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