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  2. California bans controversial 'excited delirium' diagnosis - AOL

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    California bans doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to 'excited delirium,' a term often applied to Black men in police custody.

  3. California becomes first state to ban ‘excited delirium ...

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    Lawyers for former police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering Mr Floyd, argued that the excited delirium was real, and that Chauvin acted reasonably when he pressed his knee to ...

  4. How a term widely debunked by medical groups came up in D ...

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    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 ...

  5. Excited delirium - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Killing of Angelo Quinto - Wikipedia

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    On September 30, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed eight police reform bills into law. One of them, Assembly Bill 490 or Angelo's Law, bans restraint tactics and face-down holds that could cause asphyxiation. [17] On October 10, 2023, Newsom also signed a bill prohibiting excited delirium as a valid diagnosis or cause of death. [18]

  7. Killing of Elijah McClain - Wikipedia

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    Dickerson said that the medical community is highly skeptical about whether "excited delirium" is a real medical condition and voiced concerns about the use of excited delirium as "a shield to protect police from charges of misconduct." Dickerson spoke with County District Attorney Dave Young, whose jurisdiction covers Aurora.

  8. Emergency medical association rejects ‘excited delirium ...

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    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 ...

  9. Killing of Daniel Prude - Wikipedia

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    The autopsy report ruled Prude's death a homicide and also included the contributing factors to his death as "excited delirium and acute intoxication by phencyclidine, or PCP". The death first received attention in September 2020 when the police body camera video and written reports were released along with the autopsy report. Following the ...