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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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DENVER — Colorado is one step away from becoming only the second state in the country to ban use of the controversial term “excited delirium” in police training manuals and autopsy reports. The ...

"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 ...

There’s been growing national backlash against law enforcement using the disproven medical diagnosis “excited delirium” to explain when someone dies in custody. Now, a federal judge in San Diego has ...

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 ...

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 ...