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"Excited delirium" deaths are linked to contact with the police.

Date: 2019

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Dr. Homer Venters, the former Chief Medical Officer at Rikers, states that the most common factor in "excited delirium" deaths is contact with the police. This statement from Dr. Venters is taken from a doctoral dissertation that explores the racialized way that "excited delirium" is linked to racialized assumptions about superhuman strength.