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“It’s junk science,” said Martin Chenevert, a physician at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. The theory has been used to provide a cover for police misconduct, he said. “It had an agenda.”

“It’s junk science,” said Martin Chenevert, a physician at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.

Black and Hispanic people accounted for 56% of 166 deaths in police custody attributed to excited delirium from 2010 to 2020.

The theory of excited delirium has exonerated law enforcement officers who killed people in their custody. But there's mounting opposition to the term among most prominent medical groups.

The way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, shocked

The American College of Emergency Physicians will vote at an October meeting on whether to formally disavow its 2009 position paper supporting excited delirium as a diagnosis that helped undergird several court cases. The draft resolution also calls on ACEP to discourage physicians who serve as expert witnesses from promoting the theory in criminal and civil trials.

The American College of Emergency Physicians will vote in early October on whether to disavow its 2009 research paper on excited delirium, which has been cited as a cause of death and used as a legal defense by police officers in several high-profile cases.

The four Honolulu police officers face felony criminal trial in December.

The family of a teen permanently injured in a September 2021 Makaha car chase by Honolulu Police Department officers has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the HPD’s pursuit policy is defective.

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