The of us of a Georgia girl who died after she fell from a keen patrol automobile following her arrest fought again tears on Friday as they demanded solutions in their daughter’s dying.
Brianna Grier, 28, suffered indispensable injuries on 15 July and died six days later at an Atlanta scientific institution. The Georgia bureau of investigation acknowledged this week that the deputies who build Grier within the again of a patrol automobile to employ her to the Hancock county sheriff’s place of job failed to shut the rear passenger-side door sooner than using away.
“We’re looking to safe solutions of what in actuality came about … We ain’t looking to originate no space,” a tearful Marvin Grier, Brianna’s father, acknowledged for the interval of a news convention, his speak catching a total lot of instances. He was joined by Brianna’s mother and sister, Mary and Lottie Grier.
Grier was arrested after Hancock county sheriff’s deputies were called to a dwelling in Sparta, the GBI has acknowledged. The deputies build Grier within the again of a patrol automobile, nonetheless she was no longer wearing a seatbelt, her hands were cuffed in front of her and the rear passenger-side door was by no methodology closed, according to GBI investigators.
The GBI has no longer acknowledged why deputies were called to the house or why Grier was arrested. The outstanding civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing her family, acknowledged Grier was taken into custody after a psychological health crisis.
“But all over again we have one other African American citizen killed in appropriate an amazing manner while within the custody of the police,” Crump acknowledged on the Friday news convention in downtown Decatur, a suburb of Atlanta.
He addressed Grier’s of us: “We obtained’t let them sweep your toddler daughter’s dying below the rug.”
Crump acknowledged his crew would investigate what failures precipitated Grier to fall out of the automobile while it was keen and undergo a mind injury that build her in a coma till she died on 21 July.
The president of the Georgia Inform Convention of the NAACP, Gerald Griggs, called on tell and county officials for solutions.
“To the Hancock county sheriff, it’s time to be transparent,” Griggs acknowledged. “It’s time to be responsible. To the GBI, it’s time for y’all to meet with this family. To the governor, it’s time so that you just can behold, all over again, that Georgia has a police accountability space.”
The GBI has acknowledged agents have performed interviews, reviewed mu