New York PD Is Training Officers That Someone Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is Just ‘Excited Delirium’
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Excited delirium just won’t go away. No medical association recognizes this condition as factually true. And no cop shop will ever move away from using it as a handy excuse for in-custody kil…
  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    If you never looked into what excited delirium is, or at least what it’s claimed to be, it’s a wild fucking ride. It’s a rabbit hole that you probably should not go down but I still recommend trying.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        16·
        23 days ago

        Oh, so its like ‘body language experts’ and ‘polygraphs’, more fun, scientifically baseless nonsense.

      • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        23 days ago

        Wait so when someone says “I can’t breathe,” they have excited delirium, which is a ‘condition’ that kills you… A condition that the cops caused…

        How is that better?

        • Nougat@fedia.io
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          23 days ago

          It’s “better” because then the ME doesn’t have to write “excessive force by police” on the line next to “Cause of death.”