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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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