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Wow, recap of the article, lots of WTFs.

1. Cameras lowered from 5 to 3 seconds.

2. Cameras placed in low income neighborhoods.

3. They put a camera at the mans house!

4. John Lang, a traffic-light scam whistleblower in Fresno, California who posted on Facebook that police were trying to kill him just days before he was found stabbed to death in his burned down house.

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The coroner's report notes that firefighters discovered his home was barricaded at the time of the fire. The cause of death was not stab wounds but smoke inhalation and fire: http://dig.abclocal.go.com/kfsn/PDF/JohnLang-16-01-222.pdf

Thats an odd document. Cause of death: smoke inhalation; contributing factor, multiple stab wounds. Conclusion: suicide.

Towards the back of the article it talks about video from inside the house where the man shows the knife to the camera then turns off the camera.

You mean he committed suicide by cop. Oh wait that is another meme. He committed suicide by the tried and try "stab myself to death will burning down my house method" which is all the rage nowadays.

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