A veteran with dementia got lost going shopping. He died months after an officer body-slammed him

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A veteran with dementia got lost going shopping. He died months after an officer body-slammed him

(AP) — When Carl Grant awoke from emergency surgery and couldn’t move, he apologized to family gathered around his hospital bed. In the fog of dementia, the U.S. Marine Corps veteran thought he’d been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. The truth: It was February 2020, he was 68, and a police officer had wrecked the spinal cord in his neck by slamming him onto an emergency room floor. Alabama’s ‘Parents Right to Know Act’ calls for more transpare…