The family of Sandra Bland filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Houston with the intention of making those who had her under their custody be held accountable for her death. The lawsuit mentioned state trooper Brian Encinia, the sheriff of Waller County, Texas, two prison guards and the Texas Department of Public Safety as the defendants.
"Candidly, we were unable to get many of the answers we have been asking for weeks," Cannon Lambert Sr., the lawyer representing the Bland family, told reporters in Houston. "We are looking for Waller County and the individuals involved to take accountability," Lambert added, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Lambert also said that the motivation of the family in filing the lawsuit "is that they don't want to see this sort of thing happen again to another family. ... It's got to stop."
Bland was arrested on July 10 in Waller County, Texas, after Encinia pulled her over for failing to signal a lane change. Footage from a dashboard camera reveals that the encounter intensified when he told Encinia to put out her cigarette and she questioned it, according to the New York Times.
Three days after her arrest, Bland was found dead in her jail cell in Hempstead, Texas on July 13, where officials claim she hanged herself using a plastic bag, according to USA Today.
