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Because California Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a law making it illegal to list, "Excited Delirium," as cause of death.

For those of you who are not aware of this phony medical condition, it was invented at the request of Taser manufacturers in order for them to pretend to juries that their electric shock guns were not deadly weapons, and that tasing people repeatedly will not kill people.

Same goes for choke holds and putting your knee on people's necks.  Basically, it's a way to give juries an excuse to not convict cops who murder minorities.

California has become the first state to ban the use of “excited delirium” as a cause of death, prohibiting the pseudoscientific diagnosis that authorities have frequently cited to justify killings at the hands of law enforcement.

Excited delirium – a term rejected by major medical groups, including the American Medical Association – suggests that people can develop “superhuman strength” due to drug use. Medical examiners and coroners have argued that the condition caused victims of brutal police force to struggle and collapse from cardiac arrest, essentially excusing the role of officers who were holding them down, choking or suffocating them.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting the term from being recognized as valid diagnosis or cause of death. The bill comes as a national emergency physicians’ group is also considering disavowing the term.

The legislation was prompted by the 2020 death of Angelo Quinto, who lost consciousness while two Antioch officers knelt on his neck and back, with the death certificate citing “excited delirium syndrome”. Quinto was suffering a mental health crisis in his mother’s home.

Law enforcement officials, death investigators and first responders have disproportionately applied the term to Black victims and cited it in a number of high-profile cases in recent years across the country. One of the former Minneapolis officers who pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd was heard on video saying he was “concerned about excited delirium or whatever” as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck.

The next step is to initiate criminal investigations on all deaths attributed to the phony condition, because I guarantee that most of those deaths involve cops doing something that they should not be doing.