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Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by Alupis on Thursday December 31, 2015 @01:46PM (#10818973)
And of course when the coroner's report comes out in a few days and states suicide as the cause of death, cites enough alcohol in his system to kill a moose, and possibly drugs... we'll all reject it as part of the cover up, you know... because police brutality!

Sometimes things are what they are. Don't go looking for examples to fuel your anti-police paranoia just because it makes you feel good. It's tragic Ian passed, but there's no evidence he was somehow murdered by police.

Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by dang on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:10PM (#10819410)
I appreciate the concern about evidence, but please stop fuelling this controversy.
Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by Alupis on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:34PM (#10819541)
> I appreciate the concern about evidence, but please stop fuelling this controversy.

Quite the opposite. I'm demonstrating there is nothing to be of controversy here. It's pretty clear what occurred here (we do have many of the facts now), yet many want to go off on some wild conspiracy theory. That's fueling controversy purely for the sake of controversy.

With that said - I do believe all the cases have been made, and people will see what they want to see, regardless of the truth.

Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by dang on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:22PM (#10819754)
I get that and I appreciate the intent, but it doesn't matter whether you're burning conspiracy theories or something else, you're still adding fuel to the fire. It's keeping this unseemly argument going, so please stop.
Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by puredemo on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:47PM (#10819871)
Wouldn't want an unseemly argument to continue... people might gawk.
Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by fao_ on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:20PM (#10819746)
Truth is exactly what we are essentially searching for here.

Some people have good reason not to trust police reports, as abuse of authority is rife within many districts in the US and UK.

This does not mean that we would disagree with what an official independent report would state because "It has to be a conspiracy", or any other garbage reason -- it just means that we disagree that the outcome of the official police report is necessarily correct, because of the bias police reports can hold.

Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by dinkumthinkum on Thursday December 31, 2015 @04:24PM (#10819770)
I think it is fair game to argue against breathless conspiracy theories. It sort of surprising to see in this thread such complete acceptance for the "the police murdered him" narrative while noting the obvious reality, that this is extremely unlikely and the truth is probably much simpler, is actually extremely derided.