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Is this at all related to his statement on suicide and police brutality? What was the cause of death? Source: http://techaeris.com/2015/12/28/debian-founder-ia

• kragen 11y ago
  It's a good bet that, when a young person in a highly-developed country dies and the announcements about them do not give a cause of death, they killed themselves. Given that he was white and had announced an intention to kill himself the night before, it's almost an open-and-shut case.
  • mrschwabe 11y ago
    This seems to have unfolded rapidly and the details are very light so I would like to suggest that no, this is not 'almost' an open and shut case.
  • chr15p 11y ago
    Its a possibility certainly but its also possible that the cause of death is not yet know, and wont be until an autopsy is carried. Given other people are talking about other erratic behaviour over the last few days then an aggressive brain tumour or bleeding into the brain would also be possibilities. Best not to jump to conclusions too early (the same is also true for those suggesting police brutality as the cause)
  • andy_ppp 11y ago
    There is an alternative idea that the police accidentally killed him and are trying to make it look like a suicide. They probably had his phone after all. I'd like to see if twitter can get up geocoded info on where those tweets were sent from... If it's the police station rather than Mr Murdock's house... What happens in a case like this where the police are possibly suspects in a death?
    • zymhan 11y ago
      You mean a case that you just pulled out of thin air?
      • andy_ppp 11y ago
        I don't disagree with this, it was a response to someone saying that it is an open and shut case wrt suicide.
    • at-fates-hands 11y ago
      >> What happens in a case like this where the police are possibly suspects in a death? Normally if someone dies while in the custody of police there is automatically an inquest as to what happened. If there's evidence of mistreatment or abuse, the District Attorney can then decide to send the case to a grand jury and let them decide whether they should charge the officers involved. The DA can also indict and charge the officers without a grand jury. In most cases, DA's send their cases to the grand jury in effect to "test" how strong the evidence is they have. In the Ferguson case, the grand jury waded through thousands of documents and decided the conflicting witnesses testimonies and physical evidence made them decide not to indict officer Wilson for the shooting. Even if the DA decides not to prosecute (for whatever reason), then the family can hire an attorney and file a wrongful death case (violation of constitutional rights) as a civil suit against the city. Civil cases also have a lot lower burden of proof or what we call "the preponderance of the evidence" meaning its more likely something than not something happened.
      • ladadadabing 11y ago
        Murdock didn't die in police custody and did not die until the day after the events with the police took place. Those events took place because he tried, twice, to drunkenly break into a residence and that resident, or residents, called police.
      • rand1012 11y ago
        This is a fairy tale. In reality, municipalities don't go much out of their way to uncover their own wrongdoings. It is fallacy to assume that this would be handled properly.
• batat 11y ago
  Ian's twitter on Google cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fimurdock&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... Copy http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM