On 01/01/2016 04:58 PM, juan wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 11:15:01 -0800 Rayzer <Rayzer@riseup.net> 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
And after writing all that....he killed himself?
Well, we don't know for sure that he wrote that. Maybe someone pwned the account. As far as we know, he's dead. But we don't know how he died. Maybe they'll do an autopsy. And maybe the results will become public. And maybe we can trust what they say. Or maybe not. I think that we do know that the police interacted with him, at least twice. And that they arrested him at least once. And that he bailed himself out, and went to hospital to have a minor head wound stitched. Maybe some TLA pwned his Twitter account, and worked with the police to have him harassed and murdered. Or maybe he just had a bad night, too many drugs, bad drugs, or whatever. And had some unfortunate interactions with the police. And then suicided by cop. I've been pretty lucky with my bad trips, but who knows what would have happened if things turned ugly. Automatic weapons can be mucho fun on acid in the desert. But misunderstandings might have been fatal. Maybe we'll never know just what happened.