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Texas street where Sandra Bland was arrested is renamed after her

University Boulevard will be renamed to Sandra Bland Parkway
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On Tuesday evening, the Prairie View City Council voted to rename University Boulevard—the road that that leads to Prairie View’s campus and the same road on which Bland was stopped and arrested—to Sandra Bland Parkway.

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According to ABC 13, hundreds of Prairie View A&M alumni gathered with current students to march from the student-union building to the site where Bland was stopped & arrested. The march ended at City Hall, where council members agreed to change the street name.

“If every time they pull over a student, they have to be reminded of what took place here, then that will help the relationship to be more respectful between the officers and the students,” protester Hannah Bonner told the news station.

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Sandra Bland had moved back to Texas in July to take a job with her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University. On July 10, a traffic stop ended in Bland’s arrest, with jail officials claiming a few days later that she died by suicide by hanging herself in her Waller County cell.


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