I’m just guessing, and there’s going to be differing opinions depending on what law/court decision you look up, but it could be that the federal government holds that a suicide by law enforcement or military is automatically deemed work-related.
When I worked in our workers’ compensation department, police or fire who had a heart attack or stroke were ruled work-related, even if the event didn’t happen on the job because of the stress of their work. Don’t remember what we thought about suicide. I found some court cases that ruled suicide to be work-related and some that didn’t. That could be how they’re getting away with the designation.
I think you are on to something there.
Just what I am thinking.
What I would like to know is whether the 2 CPO suicides just happened to be among the CPOs who were seen on videos welcoming the people into the Capitol?
You’re right, they do that for insurance and benefits purposes. But for the purposes of the Jan 6 event, it needs to be clarified. That’s the kind of thinking that Obama used when he classified the terror attack on a military base as “workplace violence”, even denying the families benefits.
The two suicides by LEO’s who had been at the Capitol may have been work-related but could it be that it was from the stress of their collusion with someone (Antifa?, FBI provocatours?, Trump supporters?) planning the incursion moreso than from the stress of the actual events ... which were “mostly peaceful”?