The move comes as attitudes towards the use of the term appear to be changing, explains journalist Chris Stokel-Walker. For instance, last month Colorado joined California in banning police, medical ...

The term “excited delirium” has been a contentious issue within law enforcement circles and the medical community for decades. It has been used by police to justify in-custody deaths despite ...

Doctors use “diagnostic” labels to describe a condition or constellation of symptoms and signs before determining treatment or rendering a prognosis. Diagnostic criteria generally remain static and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When police kill someone, a medical examiner lists their cause of death—which plays a ...

Aisha Beliso-De Jesus joins the show. Aisha Beliso-De Jesus is a co-founder of Princeton’s Center on Transnational Policing. Her new book "Excited Delirium" exposes a medical term that has long been ...

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A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on "excited delirium," a document that critics say was used to justify excessive force by police. The American ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado House of Representatives passed legislation barring the term “excited delirium” from being used in first responder training or incident reports, or from being listed as a ...

Citing a New York Focus report, state Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas introduced a bill last week that would effectively ban public agencies from referencing a largely debunked medical syndrome ...

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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And as we just heard, black victims in the United States are less likely to be believed when reporting cases of sexual violence, and sadly, this racism ...