I can tell you this:

Many years ago, my brother was in a tremendous car accident and was severely injured. But no injuries were visible on the exterior. As the accident was in a rural area, he tried going for help for the other passengers, but didn’t get far from the car and was crawling in the dirt when Sheriff’s deputies arrived.

Seeing no external injuries, they told him to stand up. He couldn’t. The red neck deputies stood him up. He promptly fell down. He was then arrested for DWI – drunken driving – and taken to jail sitting up in the back of a patrol car.

My dad heard about this from local small town police and went roaring over to the jail. They let him in to see my brother who, according to my dad, was almost green he was in such deep shock. Dad’s cursing and yelling at the deputies could reportedly be heard outside the jail. Upshot was that an ambulance was called and my brother was taken to the ER.

He had a broken hip, broken ribs, and broken collar bone (none of them, thank god were compound fractures). He was hospitalized over six weeks before being released. The DWI charges were dropped by the DA without being asked.

So, when the police offer a medical diagnosis “on the scene,” remember this: They are NOT QUALIFIED to offer any such diagnosis AT ALL.

Maybe Chad Gibson had “alcohol poisoning” and maybe he had “they smashed my head into the concrete poisoning.”

Or maybe he had epilepsy or any number of other conditions which the uneducated and unqualified agents of TABC and the FW PD may have mistaken for “alcohol poisoning.”

There is simply no way the police on the scene could have determined he had “alcohol poisoning” so it is another “Quick! Cover Our Asses”lie. Period.

My brother went on to play HS basketball again, but never regained the strength to try out for college.

wish i could send chad a get well balloon :’[