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“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality. (truthout.org)

submitted 7 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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For decades, police, medical examiners, and coroners have used the term used to cover up killings in police custody.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 26 points 7 months ago

It’s like drapetomania (a mental disorder diagnosed in the old South, which manifested as an irrational desire to escape one’s master) or sluggish schizophrenia (a disorder exclusively affecting dissidents in the USSR)