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Agreed - as much as anyone may want to know the exact reason(s) and or the "true" story...we may never know and while some form of closure is preferred we should avoid trying to figure out ourselves



Again, why not? Citizen (and internet/crowd-sourced) journalism has worked wonders in the past, getting to reveal things that happened etc.

Of course we won't ever be able to read his mind, but we can find much about what happened in the incident before he decided to commit suicide.


Don't forget how Reddit smeared a dead man after Boston.

There's a difference between fighting injustice and speculating based on thin evidence. I want to hear something from witnesses, family members or friends who talked to him in his final days before I start having "theories".


> but the overall incident with the police etc, is a public issue.

I'm not trying to specifically argue about this point of information but we don't even know the whole of that story or if it is even related to this at this time. I'm not saying it is or is not or anything like that. Just that we really don't know anything about what happened (yet and again, if ever).


But, obviously, "that we really don't know anything about what happened" is not an argument against trying to look into what happened.

If anything, it's the prerequisite for wanting to look into what happened.




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