Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson appeared on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday and rejected the idea that race had anything to do with the death of 28-year-old Sandra Bland.

Bland was found dead, hanging in a Texas prison in July after having been pulled over and arrested for a traffic infraction.

In the interview, Carson was asked if Bland would not have died "if she were a white woman."

Carson responded, "I think we also have a tendency to inject race into everything anytime that there are people of different races involved in a conflict."

"Having said that," the retired neurosurgeon added, "there's no question we need to be looking at some of the things going on in the justice department to make it more sensitive to people."

He offered as an example the predatory fines for minor traffic violations.

"That thing costs like a 170 bucks," Carson said, of a moving violation. "They don't have any way of paying that. They ignore it the next you know there's a warrant for their arrest, they lose their job. All we have to do is be a little sensitive and say you can pay this off at 5 dollars a week."