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Comment by gkoberger | Hacker News Reader

It's possible a large amount of people in the SF government are complicit in a coverup of a company-initiated murder. Or, alternatively, a grieving mother is an unreliable narrator and cherry-picking facts while being egged on by a sensationalist, anti-SF talking head.

I can't say for certain there's not more to this story. But I'd wait for more objective sources before I start to decide.

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I feel like it's also important to remember that the truth may be something else completely.

I'm reminded of Bob Lee's killing, when many initial reactions assumed it was a random act of violence and blamed city leaders for progressive policies and decarceration, but it later turned out to be personally motivated [1][2].

Similarly, in this case, the truth may not be suicide nor company-initiated morder, but something else entirely.

1. https://x.com/all_in_tok/status/1644752577475805185

2. https://apnews.com/article/bob-lee-cash-app-nima-momeni-tria...

Adding to the list of possibilities, it's also possible that a large amount of people in the SF government are just desensitized and jaded and have a thousand-yard-PTSD-stare from seeing so much death and despair and overdoses and crimes on a daily basis, and don't really have energy or capacity to accept that this case might not be more of the same.

During the mother's interview, she kept saying that it seemed unusual that the medical examiner only looked at the scene for a relatively short amount of time. But having lived in SF, and seeing the city services operate, it just seems completely expected to me.

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