“Excited delirium” is a diagnosis that was used to absolve police officers of responsibility for the deaths of Black and Brown men. For decades, it was legitimized by a network of forensic pathologists, law enforcement agencies, and private companies that sus…

Excited Delirium tells the story of excited delirium syndrome, a diagnosis that was used by forensic pathologists in the United States as a medical scapegoat to exonerate police officers who used exc…