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The American College of Emergency Physicians will vote soon on disavowing a position paper on "excited delirium" used to justify some police killings.
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.