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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Depending on the duty, the “era” went pretty deep into the 70’s.
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“Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
Albert Einstein
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(I taught math for a few years. That quote was up on my wall.)
Technically our involvement in Vietnam didn’t end until 1975. I think...
Whoops, it was 1973...yep...In 75 Saigon fell.
A lost old man suffering dementia
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He may have eaten too much microwave popcorn.
Not a Vietnam vet. Too young by a year.
So yes the man was indeed old enough to be a Vietnam Vet.
I think the government considers someone who was in the military up to 1975 a "Vietnam Era Veteran." I was old enough to enlist the year after that.
Yea, Certainly nam timeline. Thousands and thousands just like him.
You are correct sir. Back the blue, till it happens to you. I don’t back the blue.
Yes, it is. I am 69 and I am about a year too young to have been in Vietnam even if my parents had signed off to let me enlist at 17. It’s close, I might have squeaked in on one of the last inbound flights if I had done that.
Did the cop holler: “Roll Tide!”?
Ah, never mind my last post. That explains it all.
He was 68 in 2020. He would be 72 this year. It is entirely possible he was a Vietnam Vet.
I clicked the abuse button and asked the Admin Mod to delete my post.
The police officer should be up on murder charges.
Vincent should feel real good bout whut he dun.
Service in geographical theater areas of Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, or Cambodia from 4 July 1965 through 28 March 1973 and the evacuation of Saigon (USN, USMC, and USAF) from 29–30 April 1975.
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Section 2001 of the Act amended 38 U.S.C. 101(29)(A) by revising the definition of Vietnam era to
“[t]he period beginning November 1, 1955, and ending on May 7, 1975, in the case of a veteran who served in the Republic of Vietnam during that period.”
VA amends 38 CFR 3.2 to incorporate this change.
Unfortunately, yes: Manslaughter.
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