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 ...

DENVER — In 2017, during a six-month stretch, the bodies of two men who died in law enforcement custody arrived at the Adams County Coroner’s Office for autopsies. Both men were restrained facedown ...

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 ...

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 ...

It sometimes feels that the line between misinformation and fact has never been blurrier. Our federal government is recently back in the business of pedaling reckless and dangerous conspiracy theories ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...