…the American College of Emergency Physicians will vote at an October meeting on whether to formally disavow its 2009 position paper supporting excited delirium as a diagnosis that helped undergird those court cases. The draft resolution also calls on ACEP to discourage physicians who serve as expert witnesses from promoting the theory in criminal and civil trials.
Wait, Axon used to be called Taser International?!
Lol, of course they promote a flimsy medical diagnosis which explains away how people die in the hands of police while using “non-lethal” weapons and restraint techniques.
They’re sticking their tasers on drones next.
Wow, this is pretty big news. ‘Excited delirium’ is what cops frequently claim ‘really’ killed someone after they’ve killed someone, and I’d always thought cops being cops were full of it — exaggerating the hell out of some legit condition. But no, they’re exaggerating the hell out of hokum that’s “largely discredited.”
I’ll be very curious to see how the American College of Emergency Physicians vote comes down.
Funny how excited delirium is only experienced when cops are involved.
Because there is no such thing as “excited delirium”.
