Posted on 02/14/2021 5:12:24 PM PST by Yo-Yo
In a quiet but stunning correction, the New York Times backed away from its original report that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter wielding a fire extinguisher during the January 6 melee at the Capitol building. Shortly after American Greatness published my column Friday that showed how the Times gradually was backpedaling on its January 8 bombshell, the paper posted this caveat:
UPDATE: New information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police.
The paper continued to revise its story within the body of the original January 8 story: “Law enforcement officials initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit. Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.”
What’s missing, however, is how the Times first described what happened to Sicknick. “Mr. Sicknick, 42, an officer for the Capitol Police, died on Thursday from brain injuries he sustained after Trump loyalists who overtook the complex struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials.”
The account of Sicknick’s death was reported as fact, not speculation or rumor. Further, it appears that the anonymous sources were not law enforcement officials but people “close” to the police department—which means they could have been anyone from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to inveterate liar U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser.
Not only was the Times’ untrue story about Sicknick’s death accepted as fact by every news media organization from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post, political pundits on the NeverTrump Right also regurgitated the narrative that Sicknick was “murdered” as did lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
In an outrageous effort to create more favorable optics before the impeachment trial, House Democrats honored Sicknick in a rare memorial at the Capitol Rotunda on February 3. Joe Biden, in a statement issued after Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday afternoon, repeated the lie about Sicknick. “It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the Rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous, violent mob on January 6, 2021.”
The Times’ correction might be one reason why Democrats on Saturday reversed their demand to subpoena witnesses. House impeachment managers cited the original January 8 Times’ article as evidence in their impeachment memo: “The insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.”
Any arrangement to compel testimony would have provided Trump’s legal team with an opportunity to expose yet another myth in the Democrats’ “incitement” case against the former president.
Now that the Times has essentially retracted its explosive article, will other news organizations, pundits, and lawmakers follow suit? Unfortunately, like so many media-manufactured stories about Donald Trump and his supporters, millions of Americans already believe the Sicknick story as truth; even a Times’ correction won’t change their minds.
The truth in all matters related to Donald Trump is only of secondary concern, if at all. And once again, reporters who egregiously exploited a man’s untimely death to score political points against a man they revile won’t be held accountable. Another hoax down the memory hole.
The poor guy dies of a pre-existing condition, perhaps a stroke but it’s not certain as of this moment. With UNBELIEVABLE expediency, someone on the left heard about his misfortune, concocted a sickening story to foment backlash against Trump and the media, like obedient lapdogs, did all the heavy lifting for them.
The Soviets couldn’t even dream of this kind of cooperation and efficiency back in the glory days of Pravda.
Bkmk
When weeks passed by and there was no official report of a cause of death, I assumed the guy died of a medical condition or a self-inflicted cause. Regardless of what caused his death, I was 100% certain that it was not caused by an injury sustained during an attack by some clown storming the Capitol.
It doesn’t matter, this falsehood is firmly entrench in the leftie narrative.
Yeah, now that they’ve injected the false story into the minds of the general public with so many repetitions.
In at least two reports last week he was hit with a fire hydrant.
I think that none of the people who died were murdered by the MAGA crowd.
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Only one person died at the 1/6 Trump rally as the result of violence, and that was the woman who was shot to death, ostensibly by someone in law enforcement.
I can't. I don't know why Ashli's autopsy results and the details of her funeral are not public knowledge. I don't know why the identity of her supposed shooter was not released. And I don't know why some enterprising reporter hasn't answered these questions.
NYT once again misinforming the world and then weeks later quietly correcting the record. Pathetic!
still no excuse for the behavior of those republicans who stormed the Capitol..We were supposed to be above the violence of antifa, republicans were noted for peaceful protests, respect the police.
Bkmk
The damage has been done, the lie is now ‘truth’, no retraction will change that......................
If the paper was honest, it isn't, it would now disclose the naems of those sources. The point of that would be to inform the public who, specifically, is a liar.
These days being a good liar is protected status. My presumption is that if it is in the paper or utterd by an elected official, it is false or misleading. 100%. No exceptions. As a class, these people are incapable of truth.
If the utterance is imporatnt to me I do research on the subject. Sometime what I presumed false turns out to be true.
The Sicknik hoax was exposed as such I think the same day, certainly within a few days. This retraction is more than a month late.
In at least two reports last week he was hit with a fire hydrant.
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Fire extinguisher, but that report has now been reported to be false.
I know what the original fake story was. I also know, as I posted, that some idiots claimed he was hit with a fire hydrant, but thanks for the correction.
That Nets fan 🏀
@NetsGuy15
New Jersey lost one of its own during the Capitol riots. Staff Sgt Sicknick was beat to death with a fire hydrant by a Trump terrorist while defending Capitol Hill. This is the face of a true patriot. He fought to the very end. #Sicknick #CapitolRiots #TruePatriot
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Somehow I just knew he was there at the NYT!
Likely he's been there since 1922, ... it would explain a lot.
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