OAKLAND, Calif. - A report released Wednesday by the Physician for Human Rights unequivocally states that "excited delirium" has racist and unscientific origins and points to a death in Antioch, Calif ...

Anton Black was 19 years old when police officers chased him, shackled him, and left him face-down on the ground, struggling to breathe. He died from asphyxiation. Despite tireless objections from his ...

The “diagnosis” of excited delirium, a term often used to justify and defend police brutality, disproportionately against Black people, has circulated in the medical canon for more than 25 years. It ...

As critics suggest it doesn’t exist, or at least doesn’t kill, excited delirium continues to be used as a reason for why people sometimes die in police custody. Chris Vanderveen, Chris Hansen To ...

For decades, the term "excited delirium" has been erroneously used as a catch-all medical diagnosis for people who have died in police custody, despite having no legitimate scientific roots, a new ...

Bella Quinto-Collins was celebrating her 21st birthday with her family on Sunday when she got the news they'd all been waiting for: California had just become the first state to ban “excited delirium” ...

SAN DIEGO — Police departments and defense attorneys for law enforcement agencies throughout California can no longer use Excited Delirium as a justification for in-custody deaths. On October 9, ...

SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human rights activist hailed ...

SAN DIEGO — "'C'mon, man...dude, it's not like that, man...No, you can't do that...help...help" Seconds later, 45-year-old Buddy Nichols was dead. A San Diego ...