'Excited delirium' long has been a part of police training in parts of the U.S. The agitated condition, said to be caused by drugs or mental illness, could play a role in the case of George Floyd's killing. But one doctor calls it 'a wastebasket term.'
Law enforcement officials and others say excited delirium usually happens to people who have been using drugs or who have a serious mental illness. It may be seen when a person is held in a chokehold, hog-tied, or Tasered.
“I do think that excited delirium has been used in so many defense cases often ends up as a wastebasket term, very ill-defined,” said Douglas Zipes, a professor of cardiology at the medical school at Indiana University who’s been an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a number of lawsuits involving the condition. He has not examined the documents in Nekeya Moody’s death.
On July 5, on what would have been Nekeya Moody’s 38th birthday, her family got together to celebrate her life. Her niece, Iyanna Standberry, holds on of Nekeya’s sons, Kavino Moody; next to her is Nekeya’s son, Kierre Moody, her sisters Myeshia and Patriece Standberry, her son, Keon Moody and her mother, Myla Standberry.The sheriff’s department has not yet responded to questions about the incident.
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