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The Texas Sheriff Where Sandra Bland Died Was Previously Suspended for Racism 

The head sheriff of Waller County, Texas, where 28-year-old Sandra Bland was allegedly found asphyxiatedin a jail cell on Monday, was fired from his job as Hempstead, Texas, police chief in 2008 following allegations of racism, according to the Houston Chronicle.

TheDaily Kos recovered old Chronicle reports on Thursday showing that in 2007, R. Glenn Smith, then police chief of Hempstead, was suspended for two weeks by the Hempstead City Council after they “[viewed] videotapes and [heard] allegations of racism from local residents against him and … four [other] officers.”