“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality.
For decades, police, medical examiners, and coroners have used the term used to cover up killings in police custody.#exciteddelirium — Public Fediverse posts
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Tasers & Excited Delirium: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)#ACAB #TasersKill #BadCops #PoliceBrutality #PoliceTorture #BluePussies #Axon #ExcitedDelirium #nonlethal
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‘Outdated and offensive’: #Police in #England and #Wales barred from blaming #RestraintDeaths on ‘#ExcitedDelirium’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/20/outdated-and-offensive-police-in-england-and-wales-barred-from-blaming-restraint-deaths-on-excited-delirium
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Colorado follows California's lead and becomes the 2nd state to ban the corrupt terminology #exciteddelirium as a cause of death. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-becomes-second-state-ban-excited-delirium/
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Colorado follows California's lead and becomes the 2nd state to ban the corrupt terminology #exciteddelirium as a cause of death. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-becomes-second-state-ban-excited-delirium/
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A controversial, unproven medical condition, which is rooted in pseudoscience and disputed by doctors, is routinely being used in Britain to explain deaths after police restraint.
Suggestions that people with 'Acute Behavioural Disturbance' can display increased strength and have higher pain tolerance played on racial stereotypes and were of particular concern, the Royal College of Psychiatrists said.#ABD #ExcitedDelirium #Racism #Psychiatry #Police #MentalHealth
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#Colorado Becomes 2nd State To Strike ‘#ExcitedDelirium’ From The Law Enforcement Vernacular
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California becomes the first state to ban declaring #ExcitedDelirium as #CauseOfDeath , after frequently describing deaths of those in #PoliceCustody .
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American College of Emergency Physicians debating resolution to remove the diagnosis of "excited delirium". "“It’s junk science,” said Martin Chenevert, an emergency medicine physician at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, who often testifies as an expert witness. The theory has been used to provide a cover for police misconduct, he said. “It had an agenda.” #exciteddelirium https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/police-blame-some-deaths-on-excited-delirium-er-docs-consider-pulling-the-plug-on-the-term/
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OpenVallejo pries open records that show four people were tasered to death by the #Vallejo Police Department - and all 4 deaths were deemed "accidents". #Tasers #ExcitedDelirium https://openvallejo.org/2023/08/24/vallejo-police-concealed-violent-deaths-for-years-open-vallejo-lawsuit-reveals/
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The #Vancouver Police Department #VPD has no plans to change training on #ExcitedDelirium following a coroners inquest that found that officers who beat and restrained Myles Gray caused his death.
There is growing evidence that deaths attributed to excited delirium are usually caused by police restraints, leading to asphyxiation when an agitated person can’t recover from physical exertion because restraints interfere with breathing.
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https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/06/02/Despite-Inquest-Evidence-Police-Use-Force-VPD-Stands-Ground/ -
The Tyee: Despite Inquest Evidence on Police Use of Force, VPD Stands Ground https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/06/02/Despite-Inquest-Evidence-Police-Use-Force-VPD-Stands-Ground/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #exciteddeliriumpoliceviolence #MylesGraycoronerinquest #BCCoronersService #Dr.MichaelFreeman #VPDpolicevoilence #Sgt.SteveAddison #Dr.ChrstineHall #ExcitedDelirium #LarryMarzinzik #IanDonaldson #Tasercompany #MikeMassine #MylesGray
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CW: Police Being Criminals in Colorado
US' first #Black #ChiefPathologist, a #medical #examiner with more than three decades of experience, said it’s time to retire the term “#ExcitedDelirium ” altogether.
“It should not be used,” said Dr. Joye M. Carter Rush. “The term should be eradicated. It serves as an excuse for excessive, aggressive and prolonged restraint.”
#ACAB #BadgedCriminals #CriminalCops #ViolentCops #NoDeescalation #ThugsWithBadges #SociopathicCops #Colorado