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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 has been used as a legal defense to explain how a person experiencing severe agitation can die suddenly through no fault of the police.

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 those court cases.

The theory has been cited as a defense in the 2020 deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Daniel Prude in […] The post Police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ ER docs consider pulling the plug on the term. appeared first on TheGrio.

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

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

“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