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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)

[–] jared@mander.xyz 23 points 7 months ago

~~“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience.~~ Police Often ~~Cite It to~~ Justify Brutality.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." - Aesop

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

"Geez, that tazing was just a bit too exciting for him."

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

predators enjoy seeing fear

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

File this excuse with ‘I was just following orders’.

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