Sandra Bland was arrested July 10 in Texas after being pulled over for failing to signal a lane change while driving. The trooper claimed that he arrested the 28-year-old woman because she argued with him. Bland was jailed, and found hanged in her cell three days later.
“I think that it highlights the concern of many in the black community that a routine stop for many of the members of the black community is not handled with the same professionalism and courtesy that other people may get from the police,” Lynch said in the interview with ABC News Sunday.
The attorney general also expressed her concern that many minorities in the country mistrust law enforcement officials and do not feel supported by the US Justice Department. Minorities feel police enforce laws against them rather than use their powers to protect them, Lynch added.
Numerous highly-documented killings of unarmed black men by white US policemen have sparked nationwide protests over the past few years.
In July, an ICM poll conducted for Sputnik revealed that a third of US citizens considered police racism to be a primary cause of the high number of African-Americans killed by law enforcement in the United States.
