The household of Brianna Grier has filed a wrongful demise lawsuit towards a number of members of the Hancock County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Grier died six days after being dragged from her mother and father’ Sparta residence by a Hancock County Sheriff’s Workplace deputy. The lawsuit was introduced at a information convention in entrance of the Previous Decatur Courthouse on Could 24 within the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, Georgia.
After her mom referred to as 911 for assistance on July 15 for Grier’s schizophrenic episode, the deputies arrived on the scene between midnight and 1 a.m. Deputies reported they discovered Grier agitated, presumably intoxicated, and banging on her mother and father’ door demanding to be let in.
They handcuffed Grier earlier than dragging her to a patrol automobile. The deputies didn’t shut the door of the patrol automotive all the way in which and safe Grier’s seatbelt, and the 28-year-old fell out of the shifting automobile about 30 seconds after the automotive started shifting whereas handcuffed.
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The mom of dual ladies suffered from two cranium fractures and was airlifted about 90 miles north to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, the place she went right into a coma. In accordance with an impartial pathology performed by Dr. Allecia Wilson, Grier died from blunt pressure trauma to the pinnacle and swelling within the mind. She died on July 21.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation completed its investigation final November. Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Lawyer T. Wright Barksdale III declined to prosecute the deputies.
On the time, Brianna’s adoptive father Marvin Grier instructed WGXA Information that they referred to as the police for assist, not demise.
“The night time that this occurred, we referred to as the police for assist,” stated Mr. Grier. “I imply for assist. Not for demise.” Mr. Grier died just a few months after his daughter.
Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Eric Hertz are representing Grier’s household and introduced they filed a wrongful demise lawsuit towards Lt. Marlin Primus, Deputy Timothy Legette, and Sheriff Tomlyn Primus, citing gross negligence for the occasions resulting in the younger mom’s demise.
Crump stated on the press convention that the household filed a $100 million extreme pressure lawsuit towards the defendants.
“There isn’t any excuse, no justification why Brianna Grier is lifeless and why she died in such a horrific method,“ he stated. “Falling out the again of an unsecured police automobile touring on the freeway, her head colliding with the concrete on the road inflicting a mind bleed.”
“We would like her daughters to know that we fought for her mom,” he continued. “We would like her daughters to know that although the police didn’t deal with her with respect that with this civil lawsuit, we’re demanding respect for Brianna Grier. This lovely younger Black mom who was taken from this earth far too quickly. … Her life mattered.”
Grier’s sister, Lottie Grier, helps to lift Brianna’s 4-year-old twin daughters. “She didn’t deserve the way in which she died,” she stated. “To see her infants must develop up with out her, it hurts.”
“Defendants violated the constitutional rights of Brianna Grier, deceased daughter and mom of the Plaintiffs,” reads the lawsuit. “Underneath america Structure and the legal guidelines of the State of Georgia once they unlawfully and willfully seized and restrained the decedent, falsely arrested the decedent, unnecessarily handcuffed the decedent, picked her up and dropped her a number of occasions, ignored her cries for assist and disadvantaged her of medical help, brought about harm to her head and mind and in the end brought about her demise, misrepresented the true information, and defamed her.”
Grier’s mom, Mary Grier, stated that her granddaughters “continuously” requested about their mom and famous her husband’s passing.
“He beloved his granddaughters, Maria and Mariah, and he needed to endure as a result of he didn’t need to deceive them about how she died,” she stated. “We needed to speak about it in a approach that they might perceive.”
Mary Grier went on to say that the police knew her daughter’s situation previous to the July 15 incident and stated the police “carried her out like a log” and “dropped her” earlier than throwing her within the automobile.
“For them, Hancock County, to do one thing to her, and so they knew her situation. They knew it… I don’t suppose they did her proper. I miss my daughter.”
