#SandraBland inspires #IfIDieInPoliceCustody -- a somber collection of last words

July 17, 2015 3:11 PM PT

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On Monday, a woman named Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell, and officials declared that she had committed suicide by hanging. But her family didn’t believe what the police were saying, and neither did social media. By Wednesday, #SandraBland was a trending topic on Twitter.

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Dexter Thomas

Dexter Thomas is from San Bernardino and is a PhD candidate in East Asian studies at Cornell University. He has taught media studies and Japanese and is writing a book about Japanese hip-hop. Thomas began working in new media as a student director of programming at KUCR-FM (88.3), independently producing podcasts as well as music and news programs. He has written for several outlets internationally on topics as diverse as Internet and youth culture, social justice and video games. He left The Times in 2016.