Posted on 02/22/2021 12:46:04 AM PST by Rabin
USCP Officer Brian Sicknick’ 44. Died of a stroke on Jan. 7. Brian is a Trump supporter,
USCP officer, Howard Liebengood, 51, It seems self terminated Jan.9,
MPD Officer Jeffrey Smith, It seems self terminated Jan.15,
Of the 850 working security that day one lost a finger during a fight, while another, shot to death an un-armed female on the other side of a window she had broken.
Lawmakers fain memorial Wednesday, for Brian in the Rotunda; where he has been lying in limbo. There will be a send-off milking before his remains are transported for burial. Pelosi delivers remarks to members of the Capitol & Metro Police, the Secretary of Defense, chairman of the Joint Chiefs & Muriel Bowser.
An Air Force band provided rendition of "America the Beautiful."Suction cups
(Excerpt) Read more at policetribune.com ...
Rab.
Does the person who wrote this have part of their brain missing?
“...officers were already beat-down and exhausted both mentally and physically due to having to deal with the months of violent protests that preceded the U.S. Capitol riot.”
Holly Matkin, what groups were doing all that prior mayhem?
“Officers were attacked with metal poles, doused with bear spray, and dragged down flights of stairs while trying to quell the mayhem at the Capitol, The Washington Post reported.”
Holly Matkin, if true, what groups did those perps belong to?
Holly Matkin, how often did police look the other way prior to Jan 6? How often did they let riots continue and grow in our cities by police inaction?
Indeed. “Fain”?
Self terminated? Were these cops or cyborgs?
Poorly written across the board.
CC
+1
I did some research on her. She seems to be a freelancer specializing in law enforcement content. I read a few of her other articles and they’re a damn sight better than this one. For the most part she seems to be on our side.
CC
The words seen above appear nowhere in the body of the actual article. I believe what is seen above has been taken from an online comment section. The actual source article is well written and sympathetic to police and families.
CC
The substance of the article seems to be that two police officers committed suicide while off duty, and their families are pushing for those suicides to be counted in the line of duty.
Suicide has a negative effect on things like insurance payouts and such, since it is almost always specifically excluded in the signed contracts.
I am on the fence on this. I fully understand the effect that police work can have on a person, you often deal with the worst parts of society, you take your work home with you, people hate you (especially nowadays) and occasionally (more often nowadays) try to injure or kill you.
I have often seen cases of military veterans who commit suicide, and think that in at least some of those cases (not all) that veteran was a casualty of that war just the same as if he had been shot in the head by an enemy combatant. I often think the same thing when I see a police suicide.
I am not advocating for reclassifying suicides in all cases (or even any cases) but observing that I think there are elements of those jobs that tend to do that to people, and understandably so.
I sympathize with law enforcement, though I admit, there are elements of it now that make me less sympathetic (kneeling in support of Black Lives Matter, enforcing mask “mandates” and 2nd Amendment infringements, etc.
But I have always felt most cops are in a job, trying to do that job fairly and well, help people in the process, get paid for it, and make it home to their families at night.
There are bad cops, too. But there are bad McDonalds employees, surgeons, hairdressers (especially those named Tiffany) and so on.
I can say I wouldn’t want to be a cop nowadays. NOBODY has your back. NOBODY. Especially in a blue state or blue city. You do your job, you could end up in jail, characterized as a monster, and completely bankrupt and villainized.
She was in uniform, on police property, but because it happened before she clocked in, it was not considered to be in the line of duty.
It took a while to get that changed, so her family could get some benefits.
This is an effing lie.
Thanks SFN.
Raben
Conjecture I have read in various places suggests the officer who died was bear sprayed and respiratory stresss triggered the stroke. Suggest that the suicides may have conspired with the attackers. One FReeper suggested the second suicide may have been silenced. Perhaps more details will come.
Anything you read in these days is a lie.
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