The term ‘excited delirium’ has been associated with a number of recent high-profile deaths in law enforcement custody. George Floyd, Tommy McGlothen, Eric Parsa, and for Ronald Greene, the Union ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
"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 ...
When Angelo Quinto’s family learned that officials blamed his 2020 death on “excited delirium,” a term they had never heard before, they couldn’t believe it. To them, it was obvious the science behind ...
Angela Harris Curry stood by her son’s grave and replayed the voicemail, the only noise in the quiet Fort Lauderdale cemetery aside from chirping birds. The message had come from a nurse who did not ...
Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill on Thursday that keeps law enforcement, first responders and coroners from using the term "excited delirium." Colorado is the second state after California to ban the ...
WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) - The Chelan county coroner says a man who died in jail in June died as a result of excited delirium with heart disease as a contributing factor. The report on the death of Jesse ...
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 were 166 ...
Dec. 16—When Angelo Quinto's family learned that officials blamed his 2020 death on "excited delirium," a term they had never heard before, they couldn't believe it. To them, it was obvious the ...
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law ...