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What exactly is "excited delirium?" It's a psuedoscientific condition that is almost exclusively cited as a cause of death in cases of police brutality, as a way to shift the blame from killer cops to the person that police have killed; it's a form of victim blaming. A thread:pic.twitter.com/WpIPDBIBML
After Natasha McKenna, a 37-year-old Black women, was killed by six Fairfax County sheriff deputies, the medical examiner cited excited delirium as her cause of death. The officers had restrained McKenna and tased her until she was no longer breathing.https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/750000-settlement-reached-in-death-of-mentally-ill-inmate-in-fairfax-county/2018/09/28/8403e78e-c282-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html …
As far back as 2007, the @ACLU was raising the alarm about the use of "excited delirium," describing it then as "a means of white-washing what may be excessive use of force and inappropriate use of control techniques by officers during an arrest."https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7608386 …
In Cincinnati, police beat Nathaniel Jones with nightsticks, striking him more than 40 times and eventually killing him. The listed cause of death? Excited delirium. Again and again, this so-called condition is used to justify the deaths of Black men and women killed by police.
When police murdered Elijah McClain by injecting him with a lethal dose of ketamine after placing him in handcuffs & a chokehold, they claimed he was exhibiting signs of "excited delirium." To them, excited delirium was an excuse to kill a Black person.https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/chokehold-police-excited-delirium/2020/07/17/fe907ec8-c6bc-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html …
These are not isolated incidents, either. In Florida alone, at least 53 deaths in police custody were attributed to excited delirium over the past 10 years. The common denominator in every one of those cases: excessive force and violence by police.
This March, in Tacoma, Washington, police killed Manuel Ellis by placing him in a chokehold and then tasing him repeatedly. The police officers claimed Ellis was in a state of "excited delirium." The medical examiner ruled that Ellis' death was a homicide.
What's so disturbing about officers claiming people are exhibiting signs of excited delirium is it shows that officers recognize excited delirium for what it is: an excuse to inflict violence on Black bodies and a way to absolve themselves of blame when that violence is fatal.
The American Medical Association does not recognize excited delirium as a medical condition. The American Psychiatric Association does not recognize excited delirium as a medical condition. Quite simply, excited delirium is pseudoscience in the service of white supremacy.
As @sandylocks has put it, excited delirium is the modern-day drapetomania; a made-up condition that is used to justify anti-Black violence.
We can and will call out the police departments & MEs who continue to use it as a way to justify police violence against Black people.
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