From the Atlanta Daily World:
Despite growing scrutiny and widespread condemnation, Minnesota lawmakers have failed to ban the use of the term “excited delirium” by law enforcement. This decision perpetuates the use of a diagnosis that has been widely discredited and criticized as a pseudoscientific and racist excuse to justify the deaths of individuals in police custody. For decades, police … Continued
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Wait, i don’t understand how “excited delirium” could be used to justify a death in custody? Like the police control the environment, and access to medical, and water. Any case of excited delirium i would think would immediately require a pulling of all video footage, and leads to criminal negligence charged in almost every case.