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weren’t ruling anything out, including the possibility of suicide.
I wish there was a quotation of this particular comment. If there was evidence, like where the gun was found, leading to the consideration of this suicide possibility, I can’t see how the public release of this possibility, embarrassing to the memory of a man reported to be a fine officer, helps further the investigation.
There was a report a couple of weeks ago which clearly stated that based on the location of the gun and the fact that the fatal shot came from under his vest, that there is really no conclusion other than suicide.
I appreciate that many in the community are trying to protect this man’s family and reputation as well as their own after the elaborate funeral and blaming anti-cop forces for another dead officer killed by mysterious evil doers, one of which of course was black. Maybe a substantial insurance payment is in play here, I don’t know. But what is pretty clear at this point that the man committed suicide.
Similarly, I can’t see justifying a “massive manhunt” for something that may very well not even exist.
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Maybe I’m the victim of crappy reporting…So, what the “signs of a struggle” and unreported muzzle proximity and angle of the upper chest wound are a police white lie? I don’t know…The police would have to know other unreported, suicide-supporting details, I would think.
It is a bizarrely written article. It starts by saying that there was evidence of a struggle, but there´s apparently not enough evidence to rule out suicide. Was he struggling against himself? WTF?
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What about the gun? Any traces of anything like a fingerprint of someone other than the officer? Any traces of any fabric or other substance that would be foreign to the officer? If there was a struggle, I would think the officer’s gun would be the item over which each of the participants would seek to gain control.