Death by Cop

Spanish doctor Manuel Martinez Selles has studied sixty cases of sudden death in young men arrested by police and believes he's identified a new syndrome. In a report delivered to the European Society of Cardiology, Selles laid out his theory: that a surge in adrenaline caused by being arrested results in elevated levels of chemicals called catecholamines, which can contribute to cardiac arrest. In other words, once you're popped, your heart can stop. Selles claims to have ruled out other contributing factors such as drug use, but the fact remains that this is a hypothesis based on analysis of a very small sample group. Of course, testing this in a laboratory might be difficult. For one thing, the research might have an uncomfortably high body count. And for another, scientists pretending to be cops always come off looking like strippers. More details here.