Posted on 02/23/2021 12:37:00 PM PST by gattaca
The mother of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick said her son was not beaten with a fire extinguisher by a mob on Jan. 6, saying he likely suffered a stroke instead—refuting reports from the New York Times and other outlets claiming otherwise.
“He wasn’t hit on the head, no. We think he had a stroke, but we don’t know anything for sure,” Gladys Sicknick told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview on Feb. 22. “We’d love to know what happened.”
The NY Times, CNN, and NBC updated their reports weeks after the Jan. 6 breach to assert that Sicknick was not killed by a fire extinguisher. Originally, the NY Times reported, based on anonymous sources, that Sicknick was beaten to death.
According to the NY Times’ update in February, “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.” However, there were reports of new information emerging about the circumstances of Sicknick’s death around the same time the NY Times published its report on Jan. 8.
The allegation Sicknick was killed by a protester was cited during the House impeachment managers’ presentations and arguments that former President Donald Trump should be convicted in the Senate impeachment trial over his speech on Jan. 6. Since the Capitol breach, some pundits and elected officials have cited Sicknick’s death while pushing claims that new domestic terrorism laws are needed.
Sicknick’s brother also disputed the reports about his death in early January. “[Officer Sicknick] texted me last night and said, ‘I got pepper-sprayed twice,’ and he was in good shape,” his brother, Ken Sicknick, said to news outlets last month, appearing to dispute key details of the original NY Times report.
Medical examiners have not released an official report on Sicknick’s cause of death. An autopsy report also was not released.
Meanwhile, there have been no arrests related to the slain officer’s death, and officials have not released details about a potential suspect. And while the breach was captured via live-streaming video, there is no footage that surfaced of demonstrators hitting Sicknick with a fire extinguisher.
An official Capitol Police statement said that “officer Brian D. Sicknick passed away due to injuries sustained while on duty,” continuing to say, “Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol and was injured while physically engaging with protesters. He returned to his division office and collapsed. He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.”
Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald noted last week that Sicknick’s death was referenced so much because it is “the only example the media had of the pro-Trump mob deliberately killing anyone,” adding that “none of the other four deaths” during the riots “were at the hands of the protesters: the only other person killed with deliberate violence was a pro-Trump protester, Ashli Babbitt, unarmed when shot in the neck by a police officer at close range.” Two other protesters, according to officials, died of medical-related causes while another died allegedly due to a crush of fellow protesters.
The Epoch Times has reached out to the U.S. Capitol Police for comment.
His mother never got the official autopsy?
He was cremated so good luck with that
[Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s Mother: ‘He Wasn’t Hit on the Head’ by Trump Supporter]
Good thing the fools that vote for the Left are immune to the truth.
Whatever ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN tells them, they believe.
There was a great graphic on how the media is owned by a select groups of very few rich (duh) people. Wish I had saved that graphic. Maybe someone else has the one I saw a few days ago.
I remember looking at the pic of the shooter and the hairline and thought it was a female. We are entitled to know.
It was the Immaculate Death, he just died from nothing.
“Whatever ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN tells them, they believe.”
Even if there is a retraction or correction an hour later, a day later, a week later, a month later or a year later. Once the narrative is set, it is permanent and immune to change.
Just like we keep reading about Floyd was murdered by the police in Minneapolis.
they even are saying that ashli babbitt broke the window. that is not true.
[Once the narrative is set, it is permanent and immune to change.]
Exactly. I had the misfortune of dealing with one of their brainwashed fools several weeks ago.
Absolutely wired - with hate, I might add.
I avoid this person as much as possible; when I see them, I move away in the opposite direction if I can.
And if the cowardly officer had taken another step, he/she/it would have seen several officers within a few feet of her. They were keeping the folks at bay...and then the “kill shot” rang out...
Did the family order cremation?
This proves that we cannot believe an iota of what the “news” media tells us, especially when it is carried by the wicked Democrats.
I know the rats were lying about this - but many pandering pubs repeated this lie as well. Every single one should get down on their knees and apologize to Trump supporters.
No witnesses, no ME report, no video evidence, no evidence... period.
Sounds a lot like Justice Scalia’s death.
From the article:
“.....Meanwhile, there have been no arrests related to the slain officer’s death.....”
Seems like maybe he wasn’t SLAIN, so why do they say this in the article?
And I thought Epoch Times was sort of on our side. ??
There are cameras everywhere in and around the Capital, I’m sure they have a video of Sicknick on duty that day, and it shows nothing happened to him.
My anonymous sources say the NY Times editors are a bunch of commie liars ............................
And, of course, it's deliberate journalistic "malpractice."
A great deal of the mess we are in is directly due to the subversive "free" press.
If the "blue dog dems" and fence sitters out there (a.k.a. "independents") who watch/listen/read the drive by's got the truth even 50% more than they do now, the communist/marxists/hate america crowd would need to resort to convoy's of 18 wheeler's dumping chinese ballots in the middle of broad daylight instead of the dead of the night steal they had to resort to.
It would remain to be seen, however, if the spineless do nothing (R)'s in so many of the states would STILL certify such fraud.
Sudden Death happens.
I think that’s it! Thanks!
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