Posted on 04/02/2024 7:25:03 PM PDT by Morgana
An elderly dementia patient was paralyzed and died six months later after he was body-slammed into an ER floor by police, in a horrifying moment caught on film.
Military vet Carl Grant, 68, had been taken to UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, in February 2020 after trying to enter a house he wrongly thought was his.
Policeman Vincent Larry pushed him down the stairs of the house's porch and took him to the hospital for gashes on his forehead from the fall.
Then, after he had been treated, Grant, a US Marine Corps Veteran, wanted to leave and refused when Larry advised him not to.
Horrifying surveillance footage showed Larry then throw him to the floor in a 'hip toss' that landed him hard on his back and wrecked the spinal cord in his neck.
The story of how Grant ended up paralyzed began on Super Bowl Sunday, February 2, 2020, when Grant drove off from his Conyers, Georgia, home to shop for groceries.
It was to be a quick trip, so he left his cell phone at home and the heater running. Along the way, Grant became disoriented and turned his Kia Optima onto Interstate 20, driving west.
More than two hours later, he was in Birmingham, using his keys in the dark to try to unlock the door to a stranger's house. It was a one-story brick home, just like his.
The owner called 911. Grant assured responding officers that it was his home. They handcuffed Grant, but realized he wasn't a burglar — he truly thought he lived there. One officer recognized signs of dementia.
At the precinct, a sergeant told officers they should have called medics for an evaluation and notified a supervisor. Instead, police told Grant to move along.
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The Police were just doing their jobs; following standard procedure. There is no record of any policeman violating a citizen’s rights.
Not good enough. POS like Larry should never be in a position of authority and his actions mandate a prosecution which affords him the punishment of being a woman for the rest of his days.
That stated, I won't write my stance on what would happen to him if that was my father...
I was thinking the very same thing! A very young vet as he would be 20 years old in 1976. The Vietnam war ended in 1975.
I got a draft notice in 1966 at 19 years of age. Served 3 3/4 years in the USAF.
And the results are often hilarious!
My favorite will always be the one headline about Japanese want to change the Constitution. About ten posts of sputtering before someone came along who either read the article or remembered that we were not the only country in the world with a Constitution and if the Japanese wanted to amend theirs it was their prerogative.
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