TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldM to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 17 days ago“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality.truthout.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1168arrow-down1external-link“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality.truthout.orgTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldM to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 17 days agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
For decades, police, medical examiners, and coroners have used the term used to cover up killings in police custody.
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up26·17 days agoIt’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)
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)