In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
This was <i>very</i> recent, and the facts are not yet in. The best evidence we have to go on is his most recent tweets, captured on Pastebin (<a href="http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM</a>). His Twitter account (<a href="https://twitter.com/imurdock" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/imurdock</a>) seems to have been deleted, which is extremely strange.<p>Main notes:<p>* He was repeatedly beaten by the police. He alludes to having taken photos of the injuries, and having been hospitalized, so this will be easily proven.<p>* His last tweet is "abcolucity i'll tweet it or twitch it or whenever the rufk can i have 30 minutes toe wtie my suittyes ?" This to me strongly suggests a head injury.<p>* "The rest of my life is to fight against the police.. they are NOT friends, so don't ever ever believe otherwise."<p>* "watch my blog later <a href="http://ianmurdock.com"" rel="nofollow">http://ianmurdock.com"</a> "I'm not committing suicide today. I'll write this all up first, so the police brutality ENDEMIC in this so call free country will be known." There are no posts about this on his blog.<p>I believe this was murder: he died from a head injury sustained at the hands of the police. I also believe that the police will rule that it was a suicide; but he made clear future plans which weren't executed, so this will be a lie.<p>(EDIT: At some point in this saga, Ian's Twitter account got hacked. The deleted account, and the strange last tweet, were probably a result of that.)