You can search and find a few from the day, but the flaggers specifically targeted the posts with multiple comments. The only ones specifically focusing on the death that are still accessible only have one or two comments. A few tangentially about the accident or his philosophy slipped through.

I remember seeing complaints in replies to people mourning, saying absurd things like, "I've never heard of him before," and, "He's not important/famous enough."

To this day, I don't know what combination of "hackers' general disdain for athletes" and "internet's general disdain for black people," caused this response. I struggle to think of another explanation.

This is a good perspective from around that time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22166309 (archive link: https://archive.is/nzFGy)

Note that my root comment got flagged. It really hurts my faith that people in this forum are reasonable.