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The circumstances, as we are being told, surrounding “slain” Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick’s death, are troubling to me as a former homicide detective.

We are being spoon-fed the narrative that “Sicknick was killed at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 after he was hit in the head with a fire hydrant during the attack. He had made it back from the riot to his department’s headquarters when he had a seizure in front of his fellow officers.”

After discounting the falsehood of being “hit in the head with a fire hydrant”, there has been no evidence released to the public that would support the officer as being “slain”, which infers that his death was a homicide.

There have been many unfortunate incidents where police/fire/EMT’s (1st Responders) have responded to incidents, and for various reasons, died well after the incident was over. A good number of these deaths have been ruled as “In the Line of Duty”. For instance, a police officer pulls a large person out from underneath a vehicle after a car crash and then dies of a heart attack. Or, after a foot-chase, an officer doesn’t feel well and later dies of a heart attack or stroke at home after his shift is over. When there is an injury suffered due to negligence or an unlawful act, the death can be ruled as a homicide if the evidence is sufficient to support that the negligence or unlawful act was the proximate cause of the officer’s death. “But for the officer being struck on the head with a fire extinguisher, the grievous bodily injures/death would not have happened”.

In the unfortunate case of Officer Sicknick, we do not know what actually transpired, or if there was any preexisting medical condition he suffered from that was the actual cause of his death. From the reports I have read, there does not seem to be much support for the media-driven lie that he was “slain”, which would be ruled as a homicide by the medical examiner.