George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Daniel Prude – and now D’Vontaye Mitchell – all share something beyond being Black men who died at the hands of public safety personnel: Authorities described the ...

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 ...

Before he died last December, Gregory Lloyd Edwards, a 38-year-old U.S. Army veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, was beaten, tased, pepper-sprayed and strapped into a restraint ...

Lawyers for Derek Chauvin are expected to make the case George Floyd died due to "excited delirium" The excited delirium defense is widely used in the United States to explain the deaths of suspects ...

Last year, after police had placed Elijah McClain in a chokehold, then handcuffed him, paramedics injected him with a dose of ketamine, a powerful sedative. They said he “appeared to be” exhibiting ...

The 2017 death of an Adams County man under a pile of police officers certainly seemed like the kind of case worthy of additional scrutiny. Twice Alejandro Gutierrez screamed, “I can’t breathe!” ...

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 ...

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 ...

And “excited delirium” was among the causes of death listed for Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York, along with complications of asphyxia in a setting of physical restraint and acute PCP intoxication, ...