New York PD Is Training Officers That Someone Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is Just ‘Excited Delirium’
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Excited delirium just won’t go away. No medical association recognizes this condition as factually true. And no cop shop will ever move away from using it as a handy excuse for in-custody kil…
    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      7 months ago

      Oh, so its like ‘body language experts’ and ‘polygraphs’, more fun, scientifically baseless nonsense.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Wait so when someone says “I can’t breathe,” they have excited delirium, which is a ‘condition’ that kills you…

      How is that better?

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        4·
        7 months ago

        It’s “better” because then the ME doesn’t have to write “excessive force by police” on the line next to “Cause of death.”