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Man Found Dead at Occupy Camp in Texas

Man Found Dead at Occupy Camp in Texas | Occupy Denton Death

Occupy Denton identified the man found dead at the campsite as Darwin Cox. (Image source: occupydenton.wordpress.com)

DENTON, Texas (The BlazeAP) — A man has been found dead at a campsite at the University of North Texas campus where Occupy Denton protesters have been gathering, a school official said.

University spokesman Buddy Price said officers from the school‘s police department found the man’s body Saturday after someone called authorities, the Dallas Morning News reported. Price said no one else was at the encampment when police arrived.

He told the newspaper the man is believed to have been a member of the Occupy Denton encampment.

The man’s name and age have not been officially released, but in a statement Occupy Denton identified him as “fellow occupier” Darwin Cox, and said he had a “lifelong struggle with drug addiction.”

“He was found in a tent on the Occupy Denton camp where he had been given shelter after a fellow occupier saw him suffering from a fever,” the statement said. “Darwin’s lifelong struggle with drug addiction is suspected to have played a role in this tragedy.”

An autopsy is pending.

The campsite is still operating, but some protesters could be seen packing up and leaving late Saturday night, NBC affiliate KXAS-TV reported.

Occupy Denton protester and University of North Texas senior Garrett Graham told the station the group is in mourning.

“This is a family and this is a community here,” Graham said. “We’re dealing with this loss the way a family does — lots of condolences, a lot of emotion and a lot of love.”

University police referred calls to Price on Saturday night. Price did not immediately return a phone call to The Associated Press.

Denton is about 40 miles northwest of Dallas.

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  • kissingera
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:57am

    I think I’m more shocked to hear that Texas has an “Occupy” movement than I am over this death.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:15am

      We have a few dumbasses here. Even my small town of 100 thousand had about 15 nutjobs.

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    • last frontier
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:01am

      Wait a minute Baddoggy that’s only 15% these guys are suppose to be 99% percent of us.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:11am

      0.015% Sorry….couldn’t help myself :-)

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    • leftisneverright
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:56pm

      Do we need any more proof of the gap that exists between us and the left? OMG! How many rapes, deaths, drug abuse, sex in public/indecency stories do we need to read about to understand who ithe bad guys arein all of this?
      I can’t in my wildest dreams even imagine that idiot in the white house being reelected? If you vote for this moron, your citizenship needs to be revoked……and then you should be sent to Europe where all the other idiots live.

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    • SATX 19
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:31pm

      The SA Occupooters numbered maybe 3 dozen according to the local paper and lasted only a few hours. What I am shocked about is how much these OWS types are just like Tea Partiers. I mean how many of these OWS have OD’d, killed themselves, raped, stole from each other, assaulted the police just like the Tea Par…….oh wait……nevermind. Totally opposite from mainstream, my bad

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  • HawkEyeTx
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:52am

    $
    Well I recon his student loan will be forgiven…..what’a bet?

    To the family:…Sorry for your lost.

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  • TheCenturion
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:48am

    These people are no more than pawns in a very dangerous game – - and the prize is America.

    Communist revolutionaries are behind this… don’t doubt it.

    The only reason the liberal mayors have begun shutting them down is because it’s too soon for the final move.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:43am

    I am saddened to hear about people dying, especially alone and lonely. It is so unnecessary.

    I’ve lost friends to drugs, aids, violence, crime, and natural causes. Only humans scourge themselves with additional burdens in life, and then turn to drugs to hide the pain and shame of earlier failures.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:39am

    Even though we do not like what the Occupiers represent, he was still a human being and some are so callous and mean spirited that it shocks me that American’s can even write with such coldness. This was someones child, someones brother..maybe he was someones uncle, or cousin. And somewhere his family is mourning his loss, maybe remembering him going over old baby photos, or school pictures.. Life is twists and turns..and it is sad he chose the life he did, but once he was a sweet infant, that to took his first steps and his first tooth. God help us that we forget that this was one of your children and forgive us! RIP Darwin!

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    • mr.goodvibe
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:50am

      With all the problems in this country and the day to day struggles in our own lives do you really expect everyone to shed tears for this guy! It may sound cold but nobody really cares because he was only a victim of his own decisions.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:05am

      Mr. Goodbye.. I don’t expect tears from my fellow human beings.. but I would hope a little more Christlike behaviour.. those who make cold, evil and callous remarks are really no better than Darwin.. and could possibly be even worse. He was still someones child and we should all act a little more human.. God help us!

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:07am

      Abby,those are my thoughts as well,I hope he cried out to God before he passed away

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:21am

      I have no compassion for a drug addict that dies. He had his chances I am sure. God allowed him to die doing what he chose to do. It was his choice to be a doper, not mine. When God let him die, why should I shed a tear? There are \hundreds of Government teat suker programs that he could have taken advantage of. Better yet, he could have turned to God and probably did not. No tears here.

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    • mr.goodvibe
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:36am

      Well I’m sorry CRABBYGIRL. Maybe you can pray for me. As someone who has dealt with and has taken in 4 children of drug users I know there type, selfish and stupid. One less victimizer. He will not get a tear from me. He used his god given free will to this end. Maybe I am cold hearted but the loss of life that is not innocent and done to ones self does not tug at my heart strings.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 5:00pm

      To all of you… what would Jesus do.. this is what is wrong with our society.. people don’t forgive, but they sure judge a dead young man who for whatever reason took the wrong path down a road to his demise.. so you have children who had drug addicted parents.. well unless you are a genie or a God those children may take the very same road.. and if one dies, will you have any compassion for him or her??? Somehow I think you will.. I find it very sad that you people are lacking compassion.. and you with the kids, you had enough compassion to take children in.. it would help those same children for you to show some compassion towards the parents who bore them.. its bad enough they have to grow up knowing the truth about their parents.. but it would help if the person raising them can have just a little compassion towards their parents no matter how much you seem to hate them, because teaching a child to hate is the very last thing I would want to teach a child, but you are well on your way. God help us when we can’t mourn the passing of one wayward human being. Shame!

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:52pm

      ABBYGIRL1994, Amen, well said.

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:36am

    Maxine Waters understands that “these things happen”.
    Nancy Pelosi loves them.
    Obama understands them.

    But those violent Tea Partiers better shut up and get out of the way – so Obama can “clean up the mess”

    America has entered the Twilight Zone.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:35am

    Just Darwin being Darwin’ed

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  • mr.goodvibe
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:35am

    Sorry but it sounds so Darwinian at Denton.

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  • Rick300
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:33am

    My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.

    “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” – Matt7:1-2

    But it continues…

    “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

    “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” – Matt7:7-12

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    • hippyhater
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:46am

      So Rick, are you saying if I don’t sympathize for this man I am judging him? I do not judge him. I do sympathize with his family (his real one not his fellow occupiers). However I do not feel sorry for him. He most likely died as he lived. He was by the accounts of his own friends a junkie. He then put himself in an encampment with a bunch of fellow junkies and enablers who provided him with the drugs that probably killed him. I mourn for any Mother, Father, Sister or Brother who loses a family member to addiction but when you live by the sword you will most likely die by the sword.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:26am

      Scripture taken out of context does no make you a Bible scholar or even a Christian. Paul says to judge ALL things…What do you do with that scripture…rip that one from your Bible genius? Matthew 7 is the most misused and stupid use of scripture to justify sin.

      Learn what it means before you spew stupidity. That scripture is a call to PURITY. Something the OWS crowd and you eveidently do not know…

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:32am

    Dies in a tent or dies in an alley he was going down a path that would lead to his death and occupy just brought it to the worlds attention. If not for occupy he still would have died sooner rather than later. Drugs addictions do that.

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  • MidWestMom
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:31am

    “Someone” called the authorities.
    No protesters, just the body at the encampment when police arrived.
    Occupy Denton group says he was a fellow occupier and they are dealing with his loss like a family?

    Translates to:

    The body was found, an anonymous call was placed, the camp leader told everyone it would be better if they were absent when the police arrived and the Occupy Denton group is in full damage control trying to keep their “image” from being tarnished.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:59pm

      Funny, I thought the same thing when I read the article. Also, I read it in another e-journal, so it wasn’t someone adding details.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:33pm

      I am underwhelmed by the wisdom of OWS people. Was it a low grade fever or a high grade fever? If it was a high grade fever, letting him rest in a tent instead of taking him to a hospital is stupid & criminal.

      But it seems that OWS wants re-invent everything. If a person rapes someone, report it to the police? He11 no, they will talk to him.

      Someone has a fever? Do they figure out how bad it is? No, the let him occupy a tent.

      It seems as though they have to relearn & purposefully relearning (cuz they know better) everything that humankind has ever learned. That is hubris.

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  • notasheep
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:28am

    “He was found in a tent on the Occupy Denton camp where he had been given shelter after a fellow occupier saw him suffering from a fever,”. If they would have just taken him to a doctor he might have lived. But the doctor might be a 1% person so it was better for the cause that Darwin was left to die.

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    • mr.goodvibe
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:43am

      The doctors are part of the vast right wing conspiracy, better to let nature take it’s course.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:29pm

      Darwin in action.

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  • drago
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:26am

    One more out of the gene pool, so many more to go……Hopefully old man winter takes a heavy toll on these idiots….Occopiecicles……

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    • Your Name Here
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:09am

      This loser has gone from an occupyicicle to a corpsicle.
      When you have a group that lives with no morals and an anything goes attitude what do you expect to happen?
      I have a close friend that has a POS son that is a druggie and he and his whench are both hepatitis C positive from sharing heroin needles and they are leaches on anyone that will let them do so.
      The problem stems from the mother. No matter what he does she is there to bail him out. She has gone so far into debt for him it’s not funny. She refuses to cut the umbilicle cord.
      The attitude she has is that of an enabler. If she had used the tough love approach she wouldn’t be broke and he might have grown up eventually.
      I think it’s a huge problem when so many women raise a child alone.
      The majority of single mothers have so much on their plates that it’s hard to discipline the child too.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:25am

    It looks like there’s losers after all,you were lied to.

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  • TheCenturion
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:21am

    Guess he should have read Goldy locks and the 3 bears before he crawled into someone else’s tent, with someone else’s drugs.

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  • Giveitrevolution
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:19am

    http://www.infowars.com/

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:31am

      You wanna buy pictures of reptilian executives at the Fed sacrificing human babies to Cthulhu?

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    • mr.goodvibe
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:41am

      Jones is just as bad as the lame stream media at twisting stories to fit his agenda. Info wars sucks, just look at the number of commenters compared to here. They do have good stories once in a while thought. Read the comments, every one is a nazi jack boot licker if they have any dissenting opinion and all Jews should die is pretty much the loyal Jones fans anarchal outlook. There is a war on for your mind man!

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  • OLDBIKEFIXER
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:16am

    Now we’re getting somewhere! If the other “occupiers” would just follow this guy’s lead, the problem would fix itself.

    Hey, since the druggie is now worm food, can I have his fancy mandolin?

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    • kcares
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:18am

      Another wasted young life.

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    • BIBLESnGUNS
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:31am

      @oldbikefixer…I suggest that you turn your attention to fixing your head…The loss of human life is not something to be celebrated…I am not OWS, nor do I agree with them, but divisive and crude comments such as yours do nothing for you or your cause. I would hate to think that I could be put into the same category as you. WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE, AND CHARITY FOR ALL.
      nuff said.

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  • americansfightingforcommonsense
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:15am

    All of these “Camps” need to be shut down. This no longer a protest,if it ever really was, and now is just a place to hang out and do drugs right under the nose of the police where they feel political safety. There needs to be consequences for their actions. Unfortunately, this guy paid his life.

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    • Darla_K
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:47am

      I also think that all these camps are a open invitation for many of the homeless. It has turned out to be a good year for them. They meet up with the protesters and they get some more free stuff after their monthly checks are spent on drugs and booze. I am surprised that the crime rate in these camps aren’t alot higher than what we are hearing unless the media keeps it hush hush.

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  • lgccac
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:14am

    Am I supposed to care about these occupy morons?

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:12am

    Dead people turn up all the time at tea party protests…. Dont you know that ? Dirty needles everywhere…. You know, typica Tea Party stuff……

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:31am

      @DETROIT PAPERBOY, Careful what you say on this site, you have a bunch of brain dead morons that if you don’t write the word “ sarcasm ” after your post you will be bullied and trash talked to and told that you are a moron liberal that needs to go to the huffpo. So, just be careful and write the word sarcasm after you speak if it is to be a sarcastic statement..

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  • randy
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:12am

    “fellow occupier” Darwin Cox, and said he had a “lifelong struggle with drug addiction.”
    Guess that pesky old “Survival of this fittest” didn’t work out to well for you. did it DARWIN?

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  • AzCowboy
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:11am

    Please don’t move him. Buzzards got to eat too..

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    • mr.goodvibe
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:51am

      Some buzzard species are endangered and we can not afford to let them dine on tainted flesh.

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  • demint.disciple
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:06am

    So the guitar that was shoved half way up his arse had nothing to do with it, huh ? Funny they say they are a family and a community yet none ever met before this occupy crap.. He makes it sound like a cult.. Could it be ? Nah !!!

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  • M24
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:04am

    Boo Hoo Boo Hoo

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  • On The Bayou
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:03am

    He probably died of natural causes.

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