‘It’s an excuse to overreach’: families’ anger over UK police restraint deaths blamed on disputed condition
Acute behavioural disturbance and excited delirium have been cited in police watchdog reports and inquests into 44 deaths – but campaigners say it is pseudoscience
A man who died after being restrained by five police officers for almost an hour, mostly face down on the ground, after a 999 call reported that he was “acting strangely”, is one of more than 40 in Britain whose deaths were subsequently blamed on a disputed medical condition.
Bodyworn camera footage captured Krystian Kilkowski, 32, an engineer from Poland, saying he feared he would die as police held him down outside his house in Diss, Norfolk, in August 2020.
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