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Man found dead at Burning Man

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27 pointsandsoitis11 comments

Seems like a awful place to be even outside the music and drugs. There is a lot of police bodycam footage on YouTube about the event organizers (rangers they call themselves) acting like being above the law and preventing cops from talking to alleged rape victims as far as being arrested for obstruction or otherwise suppressing similar reports.

>> There is a lot of police bodycam footage on YouTube

As far as I know there is only police bodycam footage from one incident in 2022 involving Hannah Hoekstra and participant the police were insisting on interviewing even though they did not want to be interviewed.

Can you link to bodycam footage from other incidents?

She herself did not refuse for the first 20 minutes but instead the event organizer did it for her blocking access to her until getting arrested. it is not only obvious but the law which they where told numerous times that the actual alleged victim has to refuse not some self assigned party karens cops.

If your event needs multiple SA help teams that obstructs police maybe there is an issue.

Meanwhile, headlines about a birth at the event

http://archive.today/Q5Xfk

What lives to lead.

> "lying in a pool of blood"

Foul play would be pretty high up on the list of presumptions.

An event so large the statistics of human behavior on dopamine results in a murder.

No reason yet to think it was a murder. There have been some past deaths at burning man (natural causes, car accidents etc) but apparently no murders so far.

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1n5yh6e/sheriffs_seek...

That said, that reddit thread makes Burning Man sound massively over the shark. Cool 30 years ago but completely crap now. I've never gone and am glad of that.

I mean the first line of the article.

> A murder investigation has been launched at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada after a man was found "lying in a pool of blood" on Saturday night, police say.

I have no idea why the BBC editor decided to be really vague with the title. When talking about a music festival "a body found," murder is probably pretty down your list of what you would assume the cause is.

BBC editorial standards.

Unless it’s proven to be a murder, they can’t report it as such. They can say an investigation is launched etc. they’re pretty good at following up with subsequent articles or even changing the headline once facts materialise.

the fact they're writing an article about it at all leads me to assume murder or something of editorial interest

but i admit that's a pretty weak argument since content is content now-a-days and so perhaps i should really be assuming the opposite..

30 years ago only 4000 people went.

Burning Man is fine, the problem is I have jumped the shark and got too old and boring.

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