San Francisco’s BART police will no longer use ‘racist’ diagnosis

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The Bay Area Rapid Transit police department in San Francisco will no longer use the term “excited delirium” because of its racist connotations.

The transit department said in a press release on Thursday that the term will be removed from its policy manual and that all employees are prohibited from using the term in their written reports.

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