In this image from Birmingham Police Department body-camera video, Carl Grant sits on the porch of a stranger’s home in Birmingham, Ala., after police were called there on Feb. 2, 2020. Grant, a Vietnam War veteran with dementia, went out to shop for groceries near his suburban Atlanta home but became disoriented and ended up driving over two hours away. Police were called when he tried to get inside houses in Birmingham that he thought were his.
More than two hours later, he was in Birmingham, Alabama, using his keys in the dark to try to unlock the door to a stranger’s house. It was a one story brick home, just like his. These officers also began to recognize signs of confusion — Grant couldn’t tell them the day of the week or year. A sergeant asked Larry if they should take Grant into protective custody. Larry continued with the arrest, saying Grant assaulted him. Larry would write in his report Grant struck him with a closed fist, though he later told internal police investigators the shove caused Grant to turn and punch as he fell.
Larry rolled Grant over to his stomach and handcuffed him. It was the third time he had been restrained in six hours. Hernandez watched Grant’s mind begin to falter. By 2019, he would sometimes get lost running errands or forget to turn off the television — but he still remembered family.“Whether he remembered anything or remembered me, we’d still be right here next to each other. We’d be sitting on the porch. He’d be smoking his pipe,” she said. “I could still tuck him into bed, give him a kiss, say ‘I love you.’ I can’t do that now.
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