Who was Brianna Grier? Bodycam footage released as schizophrenic woman, 28, dies after fall from cop car

HANCOCK, GEORGIA: While taking a woman into custody in Georgia this month, deputies forgot to close the door of a patrol car. The woman fell out of the moving car and died, state officials said in a report released on Wednesday, July 27.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released a disturbing video on Friday, July 29. It showed Brianna Grier’s last moments before she fell from the moving police car and died.

The 28-year-old woman with schizophrenia was taken into custody on July 15 when she was having a health crisis. She was in a coma for six days before she died. According to 13WMAZ, her family called the police while she was having an episode, but the officers took her into custody because they said she was trying to fight them off. The GBI released a video of Grier yelling at the police officers who were trying to arrest her. She told them she wasn’t drunk and said, “I haven’t broken any laws” and “get off me.” “You see if I don’t hang myself when I get in there,” she said as she was being arrested by police, one of whom had turned on his stun gun. A time stamp on the video shows that Grier was put in the patrol car on July 15 just before 1 a.m.

Ben Crump, a civil rights lawyer for the Grier family, said that Grier had a history of mental health crises and that the family had called the police many times before. “But this time, they only called the police, and the police didn’t bring the ambulance, even though Brianna’s mom, Mary, said she was having an episode,” Crump said at a news conference on Friday. Grier’s father, Marvin Grier, said, “When they used to come to the house, they would call an ambulance.” “An ambulance would come and take her to the hospital, where she could get help.”

Mary Grier said, “If I had known it would turn out like this, I wouldn’t have called the police to come get her.” Her sister, Lottie Grier, told NBC News that Brianna Grier had been in a coma since the accident. But the doctor told her family that she was “brain dead,” so the ventilator was taken away. “I just broke down and cried because it’s so stupid that she was lying up there with tubes and pipes all over her for no reason. It didn’t have to be that way. Mary Grier said, “It didn’t have to be like that.” Now that the family has heard what the officers said, they want to know more. Mary Grier said, “If she got out of the car, they had to let her out of the car.” “That’s how I see it, because you can’t open the door of a police car from the inside. It had to be from the outside.” She is correct. Geoffrey Alpert, an expert on police training and a professor of criminal justice at the University of South Carolina, told NBC News in a text message that patrol cars should “ALWAYS be locked from the inside.”

The body camera video doesn’t show if officers opened, closed, or did anything else with the rear passenger side door, but one officer can be heard asking another officer if the door is closed. After leaving the Grier family’s house and driving away for less than a minute, the video shows an officer suddenly stop his car and get out. When the officer gets out of the car, he sees Grier lying face down on the side of the road. Grier doesn’t answer when the police officer taps her on the side and calls her name. The officer then tells the patrol car behind him, which is coming toward him, that they will need an ambulance. The video doesn’t show when Grier fell out of the car, but it does show her on the ground with her face up and the back passenger door open. Grier is still breathing, says the second officer. After Grier fell out of the patrol car and the officers called her name, she never answered. Grier is on the ground at the end of the video while police wait for paramedics.

Hancock County Sheriff Terrell Primus went to see Mary and Marvin Grier. He told them that Brianna was flown to Grady Hospital in Atlanta with a head injury. Brianna’s head was broken in two places, which led to her death. The case is still being looked into.

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