I know it is speculation, but I am fairly convinced she suffered a brain injury when the office slammed her head into the concrete. That sort of trauma can really affect her thought process in terms of suicide.

Thanks for talking about it, Lupita. You probably don’t want to be the poster girl for dark skin, you probably just want to be a kick-ass actor.

Sandra Bland should not have been arrested at all. She was arrested for failing to signal intent to change lanes, which is a felony in Texas! I mean, WTF? (And then they kept her locked up for days on end?? No wonder she lost it!) We need to remove the financial incentive for these police departments to arrest people…

Citizens who mess up go to prison, are bankrupted by legal fees, effectively have their lives ruined. Police forces that mess up write it off as the reality of police work and nothing changes. Can we swap the severity of the consequences, please? This police force should be absolutely gutted and restaffed. It’s not…

Not being completely sure, I searched for the quote to find out exactly; the woman in question (regarding the 2014 “two year” quote) has the surname Christian. I thought it might be an excoriating burn.

$1.9 mil is not enough. The pledge to retrain cops is not enough.

Well, it is a positive step that they are even allowed to SPEAK after a settlement.

If she came into the jail and said she was suicidal, as the police officer’s story goes, are they not still at fault for not monitoring a suicidal person. I mean I’m not sure how that argument would’ve relieved them of any wrongdoing in this case.

Everyone, please do not respond to the racist trolls. Click the three dots on the right and flag them as hate speech. Don’t give them any more attention than that. I’m seeing some ignorant, inaccurate things being posted that aren’t even worth responding to.

I am glad the Bland family seems to have had the upper hand in these negotiations. I am sick and tired of settlements that hogtie the families with undisclosed amounts of monetary penalties and orders not to speak on the subject. This police department and jail fucked up big time and deserve to be put through the…

A woman with pneumonia collapsed while she was working and continues to work? Sounds normal.

When asked why she didn’t discuss her pneumonia diagnosis until after it became abundantly necessary to do so, she said she “didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal.”

Guys, child slavery is really bad and I could’ve done more to fight against it, but I decided to focus on staying quiet because football.

I don’t like the Spotify interface from a readability standpoint, and Apple Music was weird and uncomfortable to me. Google Music can be quirky (the service lets you upload your own songs to your account, which doesn’t always work correctly), but it works gorgeously across devices. I’ve got over 2,500 CDs and 1,000…

I’m a Google Music/Movies/phone everything person myself. Very happy with selection, streaming quality and integration. I also still have a functioning Zune—shhh! That thing is a tank and I love it so much. Ten years old next year, still going strong, bless its little heart.

Management should have known. No company on the face of this planet blindly pays out a bonus/incentive program without periodical audits. For this exact reason.

Because you still have to do those things or you’ll be fired and unable to feed your family. You do realize that ‘reaching out to authorities’ doesn’t ensure immediate, speedy or even any action at all, right?

And then the low level employee who reported it would probably go to prison for participating while the executives would have their company fined, while paying no personal repercussions. Because that’s how the system typically works.

This is the real bullshit here: they set sales quotas that effectively forced employees to do this, if they wanted to keep their jobs. The executives then collect huge bonuses when those quotas are met and fire anyone explicitly caught doing anything wrong so they can plead ignorance to how their own salesforce hit…