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Cantrell said a guard checked with Bland about two hours before she was found dead and Bland told her, “I’m fine.” About an hour later, she asked to make a telephone call from her cell and was advised the phone was on a wall in the cell, according to Cantrell.

There is no record of her ever making a phone call, he said.

Mathis also said jail records show Bland was offered a medical checkup but declined.

Cantrell declined to describe Bland’s death in detail. He described the plastic garbage bag used as a ligature by extending his hands about 5 to 6 feet apart.

The bags, he said, had been approved by a jail inspector, but have since been removed from all cells.

Relatives and friends have insisted she was upbeat and looking forward to a new job at Prairie View A&M University, the school where she graduated in 2009. She was in the area to interview for the job and accepted it.

Mathis also said the dashcam video doesn’t provide a complete view. The trooper’s dash cam shows a view forward toward Bland’s car, but not inside and not to the side, where she wound up on the ground after authorities said she kicked the officer.

“It doesn’t show how she got on the ground,” Cantrell said.

 

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