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Police Blame Some Deaths on 'Excited Delirium.' ER Docs Consider Pulling the Plug on the Term.

The way Sheldon Haleck's parents see it, the 38-year-old's only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, ...
Yahoo

As more states target disavowed ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis, police groups push back

"Black Lives Matter" street sign near the White house in 2020 after the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis that Memorial Day ignited nationwide protests against police brutality. Following a ...
Los Angeles Times

Police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium,’ but ER doctors may disavow the term

The way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, ...
KBIA

Police use ‘excited delirium’ to explain in-custody deaths. It’s a debunked diagnosis

The term “excited delirium” has been used as a diagnosis to describe people who die suddenly in police custody. But physicians and medical boards have long dismissed excited delirium as unscientific, ...
CNN

Authorities claimed these Black men had excited delirium just before they died. But the diagnosis itself is a problem and should be abandoned, a new study says

In videos that show George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, an officer holding down the Black man’s ankles says, “I just worry about excited delirium or whatever.” Another officer ...
Scientific American

Police Blame ‘Excited Delirium’ for Deaths in Custody, but It’s Not a Real Medical Condition, Experts Say

Brooks Walsh hadn’t questioned whether “excited delirium syndrome” was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in ...
WRAL

Emergency medical association rejects ‘excited delirium,’ used to describe some deaths in police custody

(CNN) — An emergency physicians group is disavowing “excited delirium,” a controversial term that some police officers, clinicians, medical examiners and court experts have used to explain how an ...
PBS

George Floyd, Excited Delirium and the Medicalization of Police Violence

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And as we just heard, black victims in the United States are less likely to be believed when reporting cases of sexual violence, and sadly, this racism ...
AOL

Police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ ER docs consider pulling the plug on the term.

The theory has been cited as a defense in the 2020 deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York; and Angelo Quinto in Antioch, California. The way Sheldon Haleck’s ...
AOL

Police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ ER docs consider pulling the plug on the term

The way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, ...
phillyvoice.com

Police blame some deaths on 'excited delirium.' ER docs consider pulling the plug on the term

The way Sheldon Haleck's parents see it, the 38-year-old's only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, ...