The karma threshold for flags is only 30. High karma users don't have any special voting or flagging power.

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I didn't flag it, but if you read the comments here, there is confusion about whether it's even him (apparently the identity was only even mentioned in a now-deleted comment on the article), and there's also the usual amount of posts about SF that are just using the topic as an excuse to express partisan anger. Both are reasonable reasons to flag. If you jump to conspiratorial sarcasm so quickly, that contributes to the problem.

I believe it was flagged because the deceased's family does not want the name publicly known.