Anti-Police Group Fund-Raising ?Studies? are Pure Junk Science. Summary Why do some people succumb to sudden unexpected and unforeseeable death while encountering law enforcement officers? We all want answers and we all want to blame something. Often, some people seek to blame a single cause temporal to the person?s death, while most often the causation of death is actually multi-factorial and is usually chronic rather than acute. Resisting arrest and consuming illegal drugs, especially over a long