There is something very fishy about the way the San Francisco police reacted. For the first four days they refused to comment. The cause of death is still a mystery even at this point. And on day five, they have the following explanation:
- Ian Murdock was acting like a lunatic, yelling and shouting, picking fights with the cops, and "banging his head on the metal cage separating the back from the front seat" of the police car.
- They didn't arrest him at that point, but medics came and brought him to a hospital
- He was released from the hospital and went home
- He fought with the cops again, and was arrested
- After all of the above, the police and the medics for some reason considered him to be sane enough to be released. "He didn’t indicate at any point in the jail booking process that he was suicidal."
- He tweeted first that he was going to commit suicide, then that he wasn't going to do that before telling the whole story of what happened to him.
- He was found dead. Cause of death unknown. The police is not saying it was suicide, but they are using suggestive language to make us think that that's what they are saying:
"The city medical examiner’s office confirmed Murdock was found dead there. Gatpandan said she urges anyone seeking help with a suicidal individual to quickly call police to get them to the help they need."
- Ian Murdock's allegations of police abuse somehow disappear from the internet: his twitter account gets removed.