ICYMI They Kill Tech Geeks Too...

[Rayzer]

Jason McVetta wrote:
> I encourage everyone reading this, regardless of where you live, to
> contact California Assemblyman David Chiu
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chiu_%28politician%29>.  Chiu is
> a the California state legislator for the district including San
> Francisco.  He is a mainstream elitist/financialist Democrat, but
> historically he has been close to the Silicon Valley tech community.
>
> When you call Chiu's office, explain the Murdock case if the staffer
> you speak with is not familiar.  Politely mention that the SFPD is
> widely known to be corrupt.    Then ask that the Assemblyman work to
> have the incident investigated /by an independent investigator from
> outside the San Francisco Police Department/.  A state assemblymember
> does not have direct legal authority to appoint an investigator - but
> for sure, if an elected legislator speaks out, many people will listen.  
>
> Assemblyman Chiu's office phone number is (916) 319-2017.  You can
> also contact him electronically thru his official website
> <http://asmdc.org/members/a17/>.  
>
> Some members of this list may criticize this suggestion as naively
> optimistic.  Maybe it is; but I guess I haven't completely given up
> all hope for our "democratic" political institutions.  Anarchists will
> call that foolish; the rest will, I hope, call Assemblyman Chiu's
> office.  
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:23 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com
> <mailto:grarpamp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net
>     <mailto:mirimir at riseup.net>> wrote:
>     > 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.
>
>     "The police are uneducated, evil, and sadistic. Do not trust them. …
>     The rest of my life is to fight against the police. … they are NOT
>     friends, so don’t ever ever believe otherwise.”
>
>     Anyhow...
>     Reddit seems to think it's some combination of pressure, health /
>     medication,
>     philosophy, etc yielding yet another unraveling.
>     Reiser, Schwartz, Murdock... others...
>     Learning from such things, were it to be, is a lucky priviledge and
>     moment of insight.
>
>

I still think it's a med reaction exacerbated by his run in with the
SFPD. What I'd really like to have examined is a toxicology report for
Murdock, due to his repeated erratic behavior the SFPD 'intervened' in.
You'd think they'd do such a thing, but I suspect not.

At one point in my younger days I personally knew Abbie Hoffman. Later
in life, and  at the other end of the US I had a hard time believing the
story of his suicide having always noted his maniac side but never
seeing the 'down side' of his personality. I broached that on a list
where someone who knew him a lot better than me posts and he went and
asked Abbie's brother-in-law Wally, from his first marriage to Anita
Hoffman.

The response from Wally was an eyeopener. Apparently Abbie was not in
very good health and had about 95% arterial blockage. Then he was
feeling under the weather so the doctors prescribed Prozac for him,
unknowing at the time that the combination of arterial blockage and
prozac causes suicidal thoughts and tendencies.

I suspect something similar happened to Ian Murdock, and the SFPD was
involved, and crudely so, but unless the 'abrasions' to his head that
needed stitches were severe enough to have caused his demise or
exacerbated a pre-existing head injury or unknown such as potential for
cerebral hemorrhage (again, this could be due to prescription meds), it
just another instance of the police as insensitive abusive
bureaucrats-with-guns ham-handly 'dealing' with a citizen, booking and
releasing him.

-- 
RR

"You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around
with mine until it worked..."


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