Anton Black was 19 years old when police officers chased him, shackled him, and left him face-down on the ground, struggling to breathe. He died from asphyxiation. Despite tireless objections from his ...

Doctors use “diagnostic” labels to describe a condition or constellation of symptoms and signs before determining treatment or rendering a prognosis. Diagnostic criteria generally remain static and ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And as we just heard, black victims in the United States are less likely to be believed when reporting cases of sexual violence, and sadly, this racism ...

George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Daniel Prude – and now D’Vontaye Mitchell – all share something beyond being Black men who died at the hands of public safety personnel: Authorities described the ...

"Black Lives Matter" street sign near the White house in 2020 after the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis that Memorial Day ignited nationwide protests against police brutality. Following a ...

There’s been growing national backlash against law enforcement using the disproven medical diagnosis “excited delirium” to explain when someone dies in custody. Now, a federal judge in San Diego has ...

The term “excited delirium” has been used as a diagnosis to describe people who die suddenly in police custody. But physicians and medical boards have long dismissed excited delirium as unscientific, ...

Does a potentially fatal form of excitement – sometimes called “excited delirium” – exist? It’s hard to imagine there’s a debate about this because, yes, it exists without question. But two things are ...

Aisha Beliso-De Jesus joins the show. Aisha Beliso-De Jesus is a co-founder of Princeton’s Center on Transnational Policing. Her new book "Excited Delirium" exposes a medical term that has long been ...

Critics have highlighted the ‘lack of evidence that this is an actual medical syndrome’ and condoned the ‘junk science’ excuse of ‘police brutality resulting in death.’ By Renuka Rayasam / KFF Health ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in Colorado and several other states to ban the ...