4/ “Superhuman strength” is an apparent reference to the now debunked “excited delirium.” 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..."
5/ "In the 1980s, Wetli attempted to explain the deaths of thirty-two Black women found dead in Miami with excited delirium. It turned out the women had been murdered — many of them showed clear signs of strangulation." Read the whole piece. Black and other POC recognize
6/ these issues because we face them damn near everywhere. From the wonder expressed by white people when we're successful about how we got that way despite our "limitations" to the assumption that we're guilty based on simply assisting. Meanwhile, compare and contrast
7/ the way more white actual criminals are taken into custody ALIVE, infantilized ("he's just a kid!"), receive lesser sentences ("they have their whole life ahead of them!") etc. Even taken to Burger King. And then we put people like the MDME on stands to testify
8/8 about sketchy theories rooted in racial assumptions while protecting the guillty. This gives way too many white people a racism denialism get out of jail free card. "Expert" said it.