I knew this would come up, but couldn't think of specifics other than I've seen it go by on social media seemingly yearly.
I vividly remember one two or three years ago, of an Asian man I think in NYC who kept videoing the police calling them corrupt, telling the world if he died it was the police. Well, he died. The police said it wasn't the police. Sadly, I can't find this Googling.
I'd say it's happened enough to become a meme. When people post controversial things about big companies or politicians, people will reply telling them to make a video to say they aren't suicidal.
* Well some people aren't happy with my handwavy answer, so here are a few
I'd like to think I'm not a complete moron here(hopefully), and realize 'I saw it on social media' is a rather poor source.
I'm referring to ones with real news articles and real videos. The only reason I mentioned it is because news sites rarely even report such info, and definitely don't show the videos.
I'm not much for conspiracies, so my initial question was genuine. Are most or all of these people mentally ill and trying to scapegoat their enemy before offing themselves? It feels weird that it happens enough I was able to reference 4 other recent cases with 15 minutes of effort.
I can't speak to individual cases, it's usually impossible to determine from a news article. But realistically speaking, how many actual proven targeted assassinations of a white collar nature (ie whistleblowers) have happened in the US in the last 50 years? I think the answer is 0. The number of people who have antagonized big businesses or government and then died is pretty high, but also, everyone dies. Accusations of assassination are, in and of themselves, frequent weapons of dissenters. You can look at the cases of Vince Foster and Seth Rich as people whose deaths were deliberately exploited for political conspiracy mongering.
I vividly remember one two or three years ago, of an Asian man I think in NYC who kept videoing the police calling them corrupt, telling the world if he died it was the police. Well, he died. The police said it wasn't the police. Sadly, I can't find this Googling.
I'd say it's happened enough to become a meme. When people post controversial things about big companies or politicians, people will reply telling them to make a video to say they aren't suicidal.
* Well some people aren't happy with my handwavy answer, so here are a few
https://fresnopeoplesmedia.com/2016/01/2829/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/home-explodes-washingto...
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/who-was-ja... (same case, some context)
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/jeffrey-eps...