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The concept of "excited delirium" (also referred to as "excited delirium syndrome" (ExDs)) has been invoked in a number of cases to explain or justify injury or death to individuals in police custody, and the term excited delirium is disproportionately applied to Black men in police custody.
Black and Hispanic people accounted for 56% of 166 deaths in police custody attributed to excited delirium from 2010 to 2020, according to a December 2021 Virginia Law Review article.
While there is no national database tracking cases of “excited delirium” deaths in police custody, data in one study cited by the Virginia Law Review showed that from 2010 to 2020, “there ...
The deaths of Black men in police custody, including the 2020 killing of George Floyd, put pressure on the medical community to re-examine excited delirium. The ER doctors group in 2023 withdrew ...
A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police. The ...
California bans doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to 'excited delirium,' a term often applied to Black men in police custody.
The attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd ’s death cited the disputed concept of excited delirium during closing arguments Monday ...
The theory has been cited as a defense in the 2020 deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Daniel Prude in […] The post Police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ ER docs consider ...