Black woman's family gets $1.9m in US jailhouse death case

The family of a black woman found dead in her Texas jail cell has received a $1.9m settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit, CNN reported Thursday.

Sandra Bland's arrest - caught in a dashcam video that went viral as it showed a white police trooper holding a stun gun and shouting "I will light you up!" - went viral amid tensions over high-profile police killings of African Americans.