Grace Tobin
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first heard May 2026
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The same year that that study came out, the company did make a concession.
It issued a warning to police that repeated taserings and chest hits should be minimised to avoid controversy about whether tasers affect the human heart.
Well, excited delirium is a very controversial condition or diagnosis that actually at this point in time has been rejected by medical and psychiatry groups.
The World Health Organization doesn't even recognize it, but it's basically a theory about how people die in police custody and often involves people who are in mental health crisis or
Often it involves drugs.
They might be acting aggressively and have quite a high body temperature.
Those are legitimate symptoms.
But then where it becomes controversial is excited delirium being used as a cause of death.
Now, for decades, Axon has been using excited delirium in cases where someone has died after being tasered.
And the company, we've found, urges authorities, police and forensic pathologists to consider excited delirium when they're investigating a case involving a taser.
Antonio Galeano's death was probably one of the most controversial taser-related deaths in the history of the device being introduced here.
He died as police restrained him during a violent drug-induced mental health episode in June 2009 in North Queensland.
Now, his sister Giovanna, she says that information was pulled from the taser indicating it had been activated 28 times.
But what she realises now is that right from the start, the taser company's representatives were in contact with police who were investigating her brother's death, and really at every turn, the company was involved in this investigation.
That's right.
This includes references even in the pathologist autopsy findings.
Now, he found that Galliano died of excited delirium, this controversial condition.
An inquest document showed that the pathologist conceded in a report that he had minimal experience of excited delirium, but he'd read up on the experiences of American experts and American literature to make his findings.
And we found that one of those reports was actually by a Taser board member that he relied on.
And he also referred in his findings to the excited delirium checklist, which was something that Taser experts were handing out.
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