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 ...
Yahoo

As more states target disavowed ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis, police groups push back

"Black Lives Matter" street sign near the White house in 2020 after the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis that Memorial Day ignited nationwide protests against police brutality. Following a ...
9NEWS

Outside expert says Adams County coroner erred in 2017 restraint death

ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — Seven years after the Adams County coroner suggested “excited delirium” led to the death of a man who died under a pile of arresting officers in Thornton, an outside review of ...
KBIA

Police use ‘excited delirium’ to explain in-custody deaths. It’s a debunked diagnosis

The term “excited delirium” has been used as a diagnosis to describe people who die suddenly in police custody. But physicians and medical boards have long dismissed excited delirium as unscientific, ...
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 ...