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Cleveland Woman Found Dead In Jail Cell
Ralkina Jones, 37, of Cleve- land was found dead in a Cleve- land Heights jail over the weekend.
According to family members who spoke with CBS 5, she was arrested on Friday after having an argument with her husband at his job.
Jones' body was found Sun- day, and police are investigating the incident. According to the Cuyahoga County Medical Ex- aminer's Office, an autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
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Native American Activist Found Dead In His Jail Cell
Chicago Residents Outraged After Crime Scene Car Removed With Dead Bodies Inside
Residents gather around the yellow tape.
Rexdale W. Henry, 53, long-time civil-rights activist and beloved leader in his Choctaw community, was found dead in his cell in the Neshoba County Jail in Philadelphia, Miss., spark- ing family and friends to seek an independent autopsy, re- ports Jackson Free Press.
Henry’s body was found at around 10:00 a.m. on the morning of July 14, about 30 minutes after he was last seen alive. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is allegedly in- vestigating the case, but, knowing the history of Neshoba County, Henry’s supporters (justifiably) aren’t satisfied with just that.
Henry’s body was flown to Florida for an indepen-
Rexdale Henry was found dead in early July. Family wants independent probe.
dent autopsy paid for by anonymous donors. His friends, long-time civil rights activists John Steele and Diane Nash, co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coor- dinating Committee (SNCC), are helping Henry’s family with their independent probe.
Residents of a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side were seen on video berating police of- ficers after a car was removed from a crime scene with the bod- ies of victims still inside, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
The video, titled “So Damn Disrespectful, This Is Just Not Right,” was uploaded to YouTube by user “Jay Hustle” and has been circulating across social media.
In the video, an incensed crowd can be heard screaming and swearing at police officers at their seemingly callous actions. One person in the background can be heard repeating “Wow” in apparent disbelief.
“Howdoyoutowacarwitha deceased body in it?” a voice
coming from behind the camera, presumably Hustle’s, can be heard asking.
As the crowd approaches the crime-scene tape, one individual can be seen in some sort of struggle with an officer, who ap- pears to have grabbed his shirt, before the officer raises his baton to ward him off. The in- dividual is not struck.
According to the Sun-Times, at around 2:35 a.m. on Sunday, two men and a woman were traveling in the vehicle in Hum- boldt Park when shots were fired from the sidewalk. The driver, 32-year-old Darron Thomas, and the front-seat passenger, 35-year-old Kenneth J. Wal- lace, were shot multiple times and were pronounced dead at
the scene.
The unidentified 26-year-old
woman who was seated in the backseat was grazed on her right ankle and was taken to a hospi- tal.
The Chicago Police Depart- ment has since sent out a state- ment about the controversial video, saying that sometimes “unique circumstances” prompt bodies to be left inside vehicles when being removed from the scene. This would be done to protect the integrity of the crime scene [the car] while at the same time preserving the dignity of the deceased by handling their bodies in a private area rather than on the street in full view of onlookers,” the statement reads.
Another Inmate Speaks Out About Sandra Bland
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A woman claiming to have been in the Waller County, Texas jail at the same time as Sandra Bland is speaking out about what she saw and heard before her release, ABC 13 reports.
‘’Once we figured out she was dead, they were all pretty dis- traught,” said the woman, who was arrested for a DWI. She and two others were held across the hall from Bland. “Because they felt like they could have done more, why didn’t they put her in a cell with them?”
Following in the manner of Alexandria Pyle, the second inmate, who asked to remain unidentified, said that the guards were “really nice” and just “doing their jobs,” so she doesn’t believe that Bland was murdered.
“Sandra Bland was in there for something she didn’t deserve to be in there for, and I think that’s what everyone needs to focus on,” she said.
“As far as the guards there in the jail, they were really nice.
Sandra Bland was laid to rest on Saturday, however the story will not die.
They just did their job.”
Pyle said that she believes
that Bland was distraught that she couldn’t get a friend on the phone to come and bail her out. She also believes that she com- mitted suicide.
“She found out her bond was $5,000, and no one — she was calling and calling — and no one was answering, and then after that she just broke down. She was crying and crying,” Pyle said.
According to Bland’s autopsy report, she committed suicide by hanging. Bland’s mother, how- ever, refuses to accept that nar-
rative, insisting that Bland would not kill herself.
“When it’s all complete, the FBI, Texas Rangers, and every- body turns their complete inves- tigation out, you’ll see that factual wise, all the conspiracy theories just don’t work out,” said Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith.
Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who pulled San- dra Bland over and unlawfully apprehended her from her car after she declined to put out her cigarette, is on desk duty pend- ing the outcome of an investiga- tion, ABC 13 reports.
Head Of The Jackson Clan Suffers Stroke While In Brazil
Joe Jackson’s publicist confirmed to Us Weekly that Jackson’s heart stopped three times while he was trav- eling in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His temporary pacemaker was also replaced with a perma- nent one on Sunday.
Jackson, father of the late musical legend Michael Jackson, was admitted to a hospital in Brazil over the weekend after suffering a stroke, USA Today reports.
“Yesterday in Sao Paulo Joe had a stroke and then his heart stopped,” the publicist says. “He was at an event and he was “feeling light-headed and dizzy,” so he went to the hospital to be checked out. “They found out there was something wrong with his eye. There was an artery that burst behind it.” Doctors kept him to run some tests, during which time his heart stopped.”
His publicist says Jack- son “isn’t out of the woods” just yet. Family members plan on bringing Jackson back to
JOE JACKSON
the United States for addi- tional treatment.
Jackson was in the coun- try celebrating his 87th birth- day and planned on attending a bash in his honor. However, he was taken to Albert Ein- stein hospital in Sao Paulo, where doctors discovered he had an irregular heartbeat. Jackson tweeted photos of himself dining in restaurants with his latest artist, French singer Angelina, and fans just a day before the hospital- ization.
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