So I saw on the news today that, unfortunately, I was right: they DID tase Sandra Bland. They took her off camera and tased her. You can hear her agonized screams as the cop continues to yell at her to be still and take her punishment for daring to talk back.

Let me explain to you why this would have killed Sandra if they kept doing it.

Sandra had epilepsy, the medication for which can severely weaken the body and heart long after one has stopped taking it.

How do I know this? Because I, a bipolar person, took Depakote – an epilepsy medication – for years and suffered its side effects firsthand. Even after coming off the medication, I know that if I was tased by an officer, I would very likely die. My heart just wouldn’t be able to take it.

And it’s likely that Sandra Bland – who had been on epilepsy medication far longer than I – wouldn’t have been able to take it either. They likely tased her again at the station and she died.

Now they’re saying she hung herself with trash bags and blankets that weren’t in the cell – the story keeps changing because the lies keep changing – and they’re saying she had marijuana in her system, which for them is the most incriminating thing of all.

They could not have found marijuana in her system after THREE DAYS of sitting in jail unless they found it POST MORTEM.

Either she was dead when they found the drugs in her system, or they used some other prisoner’s test results to fabricate this lie.

The truth is, they bullied her into an arrest to fill a quota, tased her for talking back, and accidentally killed her, not knowing that her medicated heart could not take it.

The forms she signed on entry said she had no cuts on her arms. And yet she had cuts on her arms post mortem.

The forms also said she had a medical condition but that she wasn’t getting her medication. And we can actually hear Sandra saying in the video that she has epilepsy.

People keep saying she tried to kill herself because she lost a child before. That doesn’t mean she killed herself now. They are using her past to damn her.

It’s disgusting. Because I know if it had happened to me, they’d just say, “Oh, she’s bipolar, so she must’ve killed herself.” They would use this stigma to write off my murder. And people would believe it. Because who listens to crazy people?

Sandra Bland was murdered. Probably accidentally. But she was killed. And yet somehow, it’s still her fault for talking back, for trying to break free when he injured her arm, for BEING BLACK.