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Texas County's Racial Past Is Seen as Prelude to Sandra Bland's Death
New York Times JULY 26, 2015
By SHARON LaFRANIERE, RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and DAVID MONTGOMERY


PRAIRIE VIEW, Tex. — When Sandra Bland enrolled in 2005 at Prairie View A&M University, the historically black institution founded here almost 140 years ago, its students were still waging a civil rights war that had ended elsewhere decades before: a legal battle, against white Waller County officials, for the right to vote in the place they lived....

Herschel C. Smith, the elected constable whose precinct includes Prairie View, said the encounter underscored the need to overhaul the culture of how law enforcement officers treat minorities, a point he said he had made repeatedly to his counterparts here.

Mr. Smith, who is black, recalled that even he had been pulled over this spring and detained for 45 minutes by a police officer from Hempstead who ran his license plate through a computer database, even though he was wearing his uniform at the time.

"How humiliating is that for an elected official?" he said. "They have no respect, even when we do get elected. So I know how Sandy Bland felt."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/us/racial-divide-persists-in-texas-county-where-sandra-bland-died.html?_r=0