Police Claimed They Lied About the Handcuffed Woman Who Kicked Open the Police Car Door, Fell Out, and Died.
Brianna Grier was transported to Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia when Hancock County Sheriff Terrell Primus visited Mary and Marvin Grier earlier this month. According to the sheriff, Brianna had kicked open the police vehicle door and leapt out while it was moving.
Brianna's parents and sister phoned 911 on July 14 when she had a schizophrenia episode. Marvin Grier informed WMAZ that this was not Brianna's first psychotic episode. Typically, he said, EMS would arrive, bring her to Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin, and take her to the mental ward, but this time was different. Brianna received firearms and identification badges instead of ambulances and medical beds.
Instead of EMS, two deputies came to the residence between midnight and one in the morning, handcuffed the 28-year-old, and placed her in the back of the deputy's vehicle.
She was to be transported to the sheriff's office, but she would never arrive.
The following day, the sheriff informed the family that she had "kicked the door out and leaped out of the vehicle," according to Marvin Grier of WMAZ.
When the Griers arrived at the hospital to see Brianna, they were devastated to discover that she was on life support.
I just broke down and wept because it's so absurd that she was lying up there with tubes and wires all over her for no reason since it didn't have to be that. "It didn't have to be like that," remarked Mary Grier.
Brianna would die four days later.
As the family started the process of mourning, they also had many questions. Given that police patrol vehicle doors cannot be opened from the inside, how did Brianna "fall" out of the car after kicking through the door?
Marvin Grier said, "I would do what any other parent would do, and that's what we're trying to do: find answers."
"If she exited the vehicle, they had to let her out." "In a police cruiser, you cannot unlock the door from the inside, therefore it must have been from the outside," Mary Grier said last week.
This week would confirm Mary's assertion to be correct. Brianna never kicked the door open since the door was never shut. WMAZ has reported:
According to the GBI, Grier was put in the rear of the vehicle while shackled in the front without a seatbelt. The inquiry indicated that once she was apprehended, they attempted to place her in the driver-side rear seat of the deputy's automobile.
One of the deputies circled the vehicle and opened the back passenger door. The officer returned to the driver's side. Both deputies placed Grier in the rear seat and closed the driver-side rear door.
The cops fled the area after the deputy believed he had closed the rear passenger side door and the deputies departed the scene. They travelled a short way before Grier jumped off the speeding vehicle. The deputies had no interaction with Grier from the moment she was placed in the automobile until she tumbled out of the vehicle, as seen by body camera video.
Whether due to ineptitude or malice, the deputies who took up Brianna that night have shattered a family. The two daughters of Brianna will now grow up without their mother.
As the tragic tragedy in Uvalde has shown, police have no obligation to protect you, as established in Warren v. District of Columbia. However, it has been expressly established that while you are in police custody, they are responsible for your protection.
In DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (109 S.Ct. 998, 1989; 489 U.S. 189 (1989)), the court held that no duty arose as a result of a "special relationship," concluding that constitutional duties of care and protection only exist with respect to certain individuals, such as incarcerated prisoners, involuntarily committed mental patients, and others restrained against their will and thus unable to protect themselves.
Brianna met these requirements, yet her life was disgracefully discarded, and Georgia taxpayers will be held culpable.
This is a cover-up. The main police officer in question here is Lt. Carlin Primus.. the older brother of the long time sheriff.. Terry Primus. The video is clearly edited.. but even in it's edited format, the GBI's rendition of what took place is debunked. The car door was opened by remote.. no officer left to open the door. Everything that happened after 2 minutes and 16 seconds in that video appears to be staged.. the bodycam footage becomes completely stationary, as if the deputy has stopped moving and is now only filming. Previous to 2 minutes and 16 seconds, the deputies bodycam footage was normal.. it showed him moving and tending to Brianna... we saw here.. we heard the deputies voice.. it was constantly moving.. then at 2:17 it just stops and focuses a full frame on the actions of Lt. Primus. Watch the video with no volume.. so as not to get pulled into the story.. and look close at how the bodycam style changes.. and also at the moment when Lt. Primus alegedly picks Brianna up and puts her in the car, slow the video down to 25%.. and watch closely. Not only has her body shifted in the opposition direction.. but you can see that she is not moving at all.. and while that is happening also notice that the Camera has not moved.. meaning the other deputy is not involved with placeing her in the car.. though it had taken both of them to carry her to the car, now she suddenly can be picked up by one nearly 70 year-old officer. There is a video breakdown on my unmonetized youtube channel. The Zioebog Podcast.. stands for.. the Zooming In On Every Blade Of Grass Podcast.. #justiceforbriannagrier
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