As former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin drove his knee into the neck of a prone, dying George Floyd in May 2020, another Minneapolis cop, Thomas Lane, suggested they roll Floyd onto his ...

In videos that show George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, an officer holding down the Black man’s ankles says, “I just worry about excited delirium or whatever.” Another officer ...

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 ...

Kimone Nunis says calling 911 to get help for her dad was the worst thing she has ever done in her life. Kimone Nunis's father, 56-year-old Oral Nunis, was in the midst of a messy divorce. He had been ...

The “diagnosis” of excited delirium, a term often used to justify and defend police brutality, disproportionately against Black people, has circulated in the medical canon for more than 25 years. It ...

Brooks Walsh hadn't questioned whether "excited delirium syndrome" was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in ...

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 ...