Sandra Bland Co-Inmate: ‘I Don’t Think the Guards Did Anything’

Alexandria Pyle shared a cell with two other women, across the hall from the cell Sandra Bland had to herself at the Waller County Jail. According to ABC 13, Pyle’s was the first friendly voice Bland heard after her booking, and the two women spend the next few days communicating through their cell doors.

“She was crying, and I could barely understand her,” Pyle told ABC 13. “I was like, ‘It’s OK, don’t cry. It can’t rain all the time, it will be alright.”

Pyle seemingly confirms the official line that Bland committed suicide, and before her death, acted in a manner consistent with a depressed person willing to commit suicide.

“She, uh showed me scratches, bruises on her wrist and stuff, but we were talking through something this big,” recalled Pyle, her hand making a rectangular gesture. “So I really couldn’t see anything.”

Pyle said Bland was eager to get out of jail as soon as her bond was set Saturday. She voiced her frustration that her friend LaVaughn Mosley, whom she had repeatedly called, never came to the jail to post bond.

“She said, ‘He’s not answering, it’s going straight to voicemail. I don’t know why, I don’t know why. He said he’s going to be here in an hour, and it’s days later,'” Pyle said.

Check out the interview below, courtesy of ABC 13:

[h/t ABC 13]
[Image via screengrab]

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