“Her purpose was to stop all injustice against blacks in the South,” said Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, at DuPage A.M.E. Church in Lisle, Illinois.

As crowds listened to the obituary, Reed-Veal stressed that she did not believe that her daughter has committed a suicide while in police custody.

“The fact is I’m the mom and I still don’t know what happened to my baby… I want to know what happened to my baby. I’m gonna find out what happened to my baby. My baby has spoken. She’s still speaking and no, she didn’t kill herself,” Reed-Veal said, despite official version to the contrary.

Two days before the funeral, Bland’s autopsy report showed that the activist committed suicide by hanging. None of the injuries on her body were found consistent with a violent homicide.

RT