In videos that show George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, an officer holding down the Black man’s ankles says, “I just worry about excited delirium or whatever.” Another officer ...

As former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin drove his knee into the neck of a prone, dying George Floyd in May 2020, another Minneapolis cop, Thomas Lane, suggested they roll Floyd onto his ...

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 ...

Brooks Walsh hadn't questioned whether "excited delirium syndrome" was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in ...

People who tell themselves to get excited rather than trying to relax can improve their performance during anxiety-inducing activities such as public speaking and math tests, according to a new study.

This is the second of two reports on excited delirium. Below are some recent instances in which excited delirium was cited to explain the deaths of people in police custody. In each case, the deceased ...

The disputed term is often used in fatal cases of police violence, but isn’t recognized by some major medical bodies Throughout the first phases of the Derek Chauvin murder trial, the defense attorney ...