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“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

In a bid to promote agriculture and food production in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike has disclosed intentions to

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says the FCT Administration will partner with the State of Israel on agriculture, security, and digital economy. | Pulse Nigeria

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says the FCT Administration will partner with the State of Israel on agriculture,

You know all over the world, nobody can say you can have one hundred percent security, you know it's not possible. But we will try as much as we can, anywhere we can collaborate and work together to help us reduce some level of insecurity in the city. But be assured that we are willing to work

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.

Mr Wike stated this when he received the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, in his office in Abuja on Tuesday.