“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality.

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Police and Prosecutors have a rich history of weaponized pseudoscience.

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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)

“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality.

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." - Aesop

"Geez, that tazing was just a bit too exciting for him."

File this excuse with ‘I was just following orders’.

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