Weeks after a Georgia woman fell from a police car while in police custody and later died, an autopsy commissioned by her family says her cause of death is consistent with severe blunt force trauma.
Speaking on Monday with attorney Benjamin Crump, Dr. Allecia Wilson, the director of autopsy and forensic Services at the University of Michigan, said Brianna Grier suffered from two fractures, both on the left side of the head, along with several hemorrhages, severe cerebral edema, and compression of brain structure. Grier fell from the police car while in custody on July 15 in Hancock County, Georgia, CNN previously reported.
""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 said, using her finger to trace a line diagonally across the brain to another injury."This is a large subdural hematoma, and that's blood that is underneath them dura on the right side of the brain.