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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2020-68= 1952.
He was 21 in 1973.
See post #20
The fall of Saigon was 1975, so he would have been 24.
The US military was there for the evacuation of the Saigon embassy in ‘75.
That means he was born in 1951 or 52. No later.
Unless what you are saying is that a Vietnam veteran in general could be born as late as 1958. Technically correct but highly unlikely.
The date when it happened is in the second paragraph. Reading the article as opposed to just reading the headline answers many questions.
The guy who did this has been hired by another police department because they are big on second chances.
Maybe during the collapse or boat people evac?
It was an interesting time and a useless time but the money was great!
“68 is a young Vietnam Vet.”
I was just thinking that.
Maybe he went in at 17 and was a drop out. The draft ended in ‘73(?)... my number was drawn that January and I had 2 years before induction. Then it was over I think in ‘74. I went in anyway in early 76 because jobs were drying up, I had just turned 21 and the services were having a hard time meeting quotas.
When Grant awoke from emergency surgery and couldn't move, he apologized to family gathered around his hospital bed.
In the fog of dementia, he thought he'd been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Grant's family decided not to correct him.
'We left it like that, we didn't know how he'd react,' his sister, Kathy Jenkins, recalled.
Grant died almost six months later on July 24, 2020, aged 69.
the guy was trying to break into a home in the middle of the night, he fought the cops.
until you find a way to identify a mentally challenged individuals who still have a drivers license.
maybe a tattoo across their forehead " mentally challenged, please dont beat me even if I try to cold cock you".
Leaning needs to go back to the bridge they crawled out from.
Why did he have a license to drive if he had dementia? - because his family didnt want to take care of him!! Drive him around, or stay with him.
Born a year before me and I was last year to register
Something amiss with headline
Yeah, doubt it.
You should know by now that isn't the FReeper way.
Yeah the math isn’t working well...
I will ignore the unnecessary personal attack and say, yes the old guy was committing a crime. The police had to intervene.
But I must point out that the old guy was badly (and probably fatally) injured when he was already in custody for some time. It happened in the hospital, not on a porch.
I cannot see where such an extreme level of force would be needed at that time. If you disagree, I would like to hear a counter-argument. Perhaps I missed something.
But please, let’s all try to follow the wishes of JimRob, the boss here.
“NO personal attacks.”
very young
You guys are all guessing... lots of troops in Nam in ‘73 and my lifer DS was aching for one more tour.... ymmv
That caught me attention too. The article says he joined the Marines in 1969 when he turned 18.
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