Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw shared his thoughts on the death of Sandra Bland and how the actions of the arresting officer escalated the incident, The Texas Tribune reports.

Family lawyers say the Texas trooper lacked probable cause to make the traffic stop in the first place, and committed assault and battery during the arrest.

  The family of Sandra Bland officially filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday, Aug. 4. The suit names Texas trooper Brian Encinia, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Waller County, the county’s sheriff’s department and two jailers as defendants. The suit accuses them of being responsible for the Bland’s apparent suicide while she was […]