On 01/01/2016 10:39 PM, Rayzer wrote:
Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
How dare they treat him like a Black or homeless person!
(RR extracts tongue from cheek, mutters the letters ACAB/FTP)
A day after an altercation with the San Francisco Police which left him, according to the police report, with “abrasions”, Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian Linux Project, is dead. Here’s his post-incarceration archived tweetstream: https://archive.is/J9lZV Is this the most complete archive that exists? Granted, what's there is
On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 11:15 -0800, Rayzer wrote: pretty damning towards whatever LEA is involved, but it seems like there's more to it before where this one cuts off.
Source, reply in a thread by @ioerror: https://twitter.com/tellmemo/status/682555293822091264
American LEA have been heavily militarized, for sure. And they've increasingly been trained to escalate confrontations and dominate. Still, I find it hard to imagine how a middle-aged, upper-middle-class white guy would have been beaten down like that. Unless he was out of control, anyway. But then, I have no recent experience with the San Francisco County Sheriff's Department or SFPD. Maybe they're tired of fucking with rich nerds. Maybe, if he were non-white, they would have just shot him. Whatever happened, it's very sad.