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For too long, "excited delirium" has been a tool in the back pockets of police, medical examiners, and coroners used to cover up killings in police custody,
— leaving families without answers
or justice.
Maryland’s audit is a good start at righting this wrong, but a national reckoning is needed.
That’s because this is not just a Maryland problem.
Excited delirium was cited by police and other officials in the widely known police-perpetrated killings of…

“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality.
For decades, police, medical examiners, and coroners have used the term used to cover up killings in police custody.

The president did say that under the new order of things in Washington,
the police will be “allowed to do whatever the hell they want”
to secure the streets.
But that’s just performative pro-police rhetoric, right?
It may sound like the actual legitimization of police brutality.
But that couldn’t happen here.
After all, the leaders of our major institutions would speak out,
forcefully and in unison, against it.
Here in the United States of Ame…

Trump Isn’t Liberating D.C. He’s Subduing It.
We’ve seen this happen in other countries. We thought it couldn’t happen here. It is.

Never good for a bookstore to close. #Oklahoma #bookstore #amreading

Losing a place for community: Fulton Street Books & Coffee announces closure
Tulsa’s only Black-owned bookstore opened in 2020 amid protests against police brutality. Now, Oklahoma politics are causing it to close.

Some reactions to the current Indonesian protests:
- As far as the underlying issue goes, that of legislative pay, the protesters are in the wrong there, as legislators do actually deserve to be compensated for the extra expenses associated with the position
- That being said, the rights we consider "First Amendment rights" here in the US (speech, assembly, petitioning the government for redress of grievances) are fundamental and should be protected. The protesters have a right to protest even if they are wrong about legislative pay.
- Furthermore, police response to the protests has been disproportionately violent and fascistic. The death of a protester struck by a police vehicle shows the danger of both car culture and police militarization. Further protests on these two topics are necessary, and I stand in solidarity with any protesters speaking out against police brutality and vehicle deadliness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2025_Indonesian_protests

I remember being outside of the Red Mosque in New Delhi. Some dalit boys, the underclass, were selling postcards in the park. Two cops showed up with batons and beat them. They ran. They would return. Police brutality does not stop crime. It only pleases cruel people.

Thousands rally in Belgrade to condemn police brutality at anti-government protests: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/09/thousands-rally-in-belgrade-to.html

A jury has awarded at least $2.2m to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020.
In the verdict last week, the jury found LA county liable for the injuries sustained by the man,
Cellin Gluck, and determined that he suffered $3.5m in damages.
They also awarded his daughter, who was there with him that day, an additional $300,000 for emotional distress