In Texas, the state trooper who pulled over Sandra Bland for a routine traffic stop that ultimately led to her death has been fired.

Sandra Bland’s family is bringing a federal lawsuit against Trooper Brian Encinia, the man that pulled over Bland, and “others responsible for her death.”

Sandra Bland was found dead in her jail cell in Waller County, Texas, just days after a white police officer pulled over and arrested her when she failed to signal a lane change. Her arrest has been cited as a prime example of racial bias and misuse of force by the police — and it happened in a county itself marred by…

A Texas prosecutor has announced that Sandra Bland died by hanging in a suicide and her autopsy uncovered no evidence of a “violent struggle.” This autopsy is separate from the independent investigation commissioned by Bland’s family.

Sandra Bland’s family has requested an independent autopsy into her death, which Texas authorities have ruled a suicide.