Yahoo

MPD still teaching controversial ‘excited delirium’ syndrome — despite claiming it had stopped

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the federal trial unfolding in St. Paul for three former Minneapolis officers charged in connection with George Floyd's killing ...
CNN

How a term widely debunked by medical groups came up in D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death inquiry

George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Daniel Prude – and now D’Vontaye Mitchell – all share something beyond being Black men who died at the hands of public safety personnel: Authorities described the ...
Los Angeles Times

Doctors abandon a diagnosis used to justify police custody deaths. It might live on anyway

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 ...
9NEWS

How ‘Excited Delirium’ might live on despite medical community’s renunciation

DENVER — 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Denver Post

As Colorado and other states target disavowed “excited delirium” diagnosis, police groups push back

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in Colorado and several other states to ban the ...