When Carl Grant awoke from surgery in February 2020 and couldn’t move, he apologized to family gathered around his bed. In the fog of dementia, he thought he’d been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. But the Marine veteran had just suffered a spinal cord injury after a police officer slammed him to the floor.
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, drove off from his Georgia home intending to shop for groceries. He became disoriented and wound up in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Grant died almost six months later. The death certificate worksheet lists his paralysis as the cause, attributing it to “physical assault with body slam.”
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, drove off from his Georgia home intending to shop for groceries. He became disoriented and wound up in Birmingham, Alabama. There, Grant twice