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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When police kill someone, a medical examiner lists their cause of death—which plays a ...

"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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law ...