"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 ...

Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill on Thursday that keeps law enforcement, first responders and coroners from using the term "excited delirium." Colorado is the second state after California to ban the ...

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 ...

The term “excited delirium” has been a contentious issue within law enforcement circles and the medical community for decades. It has been used by police to justify in-custody deaths despite ...

Angela Harris Curry stood by her son’s grave and replayed the voicemail, the only noise in the quiet Fort Lauderdale cemetery aside from chirping birds. The message had come from a nurse who did not ...

DENVER — Colorado will become only the second state in the country to prohibit use of the controversial term “excited delirium” on such official documents as police and autopsy reports after Gov.

DENVER — Colorado moved one step closer this week to becoming only the second state in the country to ban use of the controversial term “excited delirium” in police training manuals and autopsy ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Feb. 19, Dr. Aisha Beliso-De Jesús gave the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies 2025 Black History Month Keynote Lecture in the Campus Center. The lecture, co-sponsored by ...

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, ...

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 ...