The death of a mother of two who fell out of a moving patrol car in Georgia is being investigated using newly released police bodycam footage, watch the Brianna Grier video
Disturbing body camera footage released Friday depicts the final moments of a Georgia woman before she tragically fell from a moving cop car while in handcuffs.
The video was released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation two days after the agency discovered that officers did not close the car door from which Brianna Grier, 28, fell while being handcuffed.
Brianna Grier Died After Hancock County Georgia Police Left Cop Car Door Open As Video Goes Viral, Biography, Age Obituary, News
Hancock County Sheriff’s (GA) Office deputies failed to care for Brianna Grier! Deputies put her in the transport vehicle w/o a seatbelt & DIDN'T close the car’s rear door. We need ALL video evidence of the in-custody fall that led to her death to be released! pic.twitter.com/xRtRCZVzu7
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) August 1, 2022
Instead of helping Brianna Grier w/ her mental health crisis, Hancock County Sheriff's (GA) deputies tried to take her into custody. W/ RECKLESS disregard, they left the van door open, causing Brianna’s ultimately fatal fall out of a moving patrol vehicle! #JusticeForBriannaGrier pic.twitter.com/N22eceq8ok
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) August 1, 2022
Georgia police claim that 28-year-old Brianna Grier "fell out" of a patrol car, dying of massive head injuries, even tho she was handcuffed and police vehicles lock (preventing them from being able to be opened) from the inside. pic.twitter.com/36qBOEJ21Q
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) July 24, 2022
5 days ago Georgia Cops told Brianna Grier's family she died b/c she "kicked open the door to a moving police car & fell out."
Now body cam footage shows deputies left the door open, left her w/o a seat belt, drove away, & tried to cover up her murder.
How do you reform this?
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) July 29, 2022
Grier, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, was arrested on July 15 while suffering from a health crisis and died six days later while in a coma.
Her family called the police while she was having an episode, but officers alleged she of resisting arrest and arrested her. The GBI footage shows Grier yelling at the officers who are arresting her.
In the video, she is heard yelling, “I ain’t broke no law, get off me.” “You see if I don’t hang myself when I get in there,” she said while cops, one of whom had used his stun gun to apprehend her.
GBI Report on Brianna Grier Incidence
According to the GBI investigation, cops then opened the car’s rear doors to place Grier, a mother of two, in the backseat.
“The deputies left the scene and drove a short distance,” said the GBI, during which Grier must have fallen out of the car.
The statement further added, “Agents have concluded that the rear passenger side door of the patrol car, near where Grier was sitting, was never closed,”
Grier Family Reaction
The police were called by a family member of Brianna while she was having a schizophrenic episode. They have never thought that this would end up so fatally.
Mary Grier, Brianna’s mother said, “If I had known it was going to turn out like this, God knows I wouldn’t have called the police to come and get her.”
The investigation of Brianna’s death is still under process.