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by steven2012 4599 days ago
Okay, ya I just found it as well. It's actually more South-East of the marker, and you have to look for the police car to locate it.

I don't think this is an unreasonable request to remove this map tile, it's a pretty clear image of a dead with cops standing nearby.

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That's it? What a load of fuss over nothing.
Imagine that body was somebody that you loved.
I can empathize, but I would probably ask Google to remove it before going to the news.
Yeah, that part doesn't make sense to me either. Buuut, I'm not in the father's position, so I'll try to reserve some judgement.
They must have changed it, because I'm not seeing it.
Next to the tracks: http://i.imgur.com/6XFwOq8.jpg
I would post a link, but I have no idea how to do it with the new Google Maps Beta. Much like everything else they've done recently, they've hidden all the functionality with absolutely no benefit, and exposed utterly useless functionality.
They've "fixed" it so that you just copy and paste the URL to share whatever you're seeing in the map. Yes, in some ways, it's not obvious, but mainly because the "obvious" way of sharing the URL didn't work before.
I think you need to be using the 45 deg imagery.
And if you rotate the view point you get 4 different snapshots in time.

More police activity. Police activity but no body. And then back to as it was. No activity, no body.