Family of woman who died after fall from patrol automotive requires options

SPARTA, Ga. (WRDW) – The family of a Georgia woman who suffered lethal accidents whereas in deputies’ custody is demanding options about her demise.

The family of 28-year-old Brianna Marie Grier spoke Friday at a data conference regarding her demise. Their lawyer, Ben Crump, says regulation enforcement mishandled what was a psychological nicely being state of affairs, not a authorized one.

Two Hancock County deputies have been known as to the family’s home in Sparta on July 15, the place Grier was arrested, WRDW experiences. The choice bought right here from Grier’s dad and mother, who said she was behaving abnormally. Her family says she has a historic previous of psychological illness.

Throughout the early ranges of the investigation, it was determined that whereas deputies have been taking Grier to the sheriff’s office, she fell out of a patrol automotive and suffered very important accidents.

Grier was pronounced ineffective from her accidents spherical 1 pm July 21 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Her physique was taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab for an autopsy.

The GBI’s regional investigation office in Milledgeville was requested to analysis the incident. New particulars have been launched Wednesday after fairly just a few interviews, evaluations of physique digital digicam footage and mechanical exams on the patrol automotive. In addition to, GBI launched the bodycam footage involving this case Friday.

Investigators concluded that the rear passenger facet door of the patrol automotive, near the place Grier was sitting, was on no account closed.

After Grier was arrested, the two deputies tried to position her throughout the patrol automotive. Every deputies and Grier have been on the rear driver’s facet door of the patrol automotive. Grier was on the underside refusing to get throughout the patrol automotive and made an announcement that she was going to harm herself.

To put Grier throughout the patrol automotive, one among many deputies walked spherical and opened the rear passenger facet door. The deputy then returned to the rear driver’s facet door, and every deputies put Grier throughout the backseat of the patrol automotive.

Investigators say Grier was handcuffed throughout the entrance of her physique and was not carrying a seatbelt.

The deputies closed the rear driver’s facet door. The investigation reveals that the deputy thought he closed the rear passenger facet door.

The deputies left the scene and drove a quick distance. Physique digital digicam footage reveals the deputies had no completely different contact with Grier from the time she was positioned throughout the automotive until she fell out of the transferring automotive.

The GBI says the investigation stays full of life and stays to be ongoing.

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