New reports reveal a Georgia woman who fell out of a moving police patrol car on July 15 while handcuffed and experiencing a mental wellness break suffered two fatal fractures in her skull which caused her brain to shift in her cranium. Her family’s lawyer says she is the “Face of the mental health crisis here in Georgia.”
On Monday, Aug. 8, civil rights attorney Ben Crump shared the results of an independent preliminary analysis of Brianna Grier’s injuries. The review was conducted by Dr. Allecia Wilson, the director of autopsy and forensic services at the University of Michigan, and Roger Mitchell, chair of the department of pathology at Howard University at the request of the young mother’s parents, the Daily Beast reports.
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During a news conference held in Atlanta at Mt. Zion Second Baptist Church, Wilson unpacked her findings and explained how at the time of Grier’s death, she was experiencing internal hemorrhages and swelling of the brain. The medical expert stated the trauma was so great, it shifted her brain from one side of the skull to the other.
In addition to suffering two fractures on the left side of the head, the 28-year-old also had several hemorrhages, severe cerebral edema, and compression of brain structure.
“What can sometimes happen when the brain or the head has an impact at one side, the brain can move inside of the skull, and that can cause injury directly opposite to where the impact occurs,” Wilson stated as she used her finger to trace a diagonal line across a mockup of Grier’s brain, connecting one injury to another.
“This is a large subdural hematoma, and that’s blood that is underneath the dura on the right side of the brain.”
She said, “What happens when there’s this type of impact to the head, is that the brain can start to swell. In this case, the cause of death is consistent with the severe blunt force injury that occurred to the side of the head.”
The lawyers believe the cause of the trauma was the “violent collision” of her head hitting the ground after she fell out of a moving patrol vehicle.
Despite one deputy from the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department being arrested and bodycam being released to the public, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has not yet released Grier’s official autopsy result.
Crump worries the release of the autopsy could be delayed for months and said, “We are demanding that they finish this investigation expeditiously.”
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