"Within 36 hours" is doing a lot of work here. Zero cops died as a result of the protests.
Officer Sicknick (the cop who died of a stroke the next day) was pepper-sprayed by rioters, but not physically assaulted in a way which might cause a stroke. He did not collapse at the capital on Jan 6, but at 10PM the following day (your confusion on this point is understandable, given that the Wiki article deceptively implies that he collapsed on Jan 6). His autopsy found that his death was due to "natural causes".
The gaslighting around Jan 6 is really outrageous.
Oh speaking of gaslighting, what is this horseshit?
"Not physically assaulted in a way which might cause a stroke" - you're right, I can imagine no way in which hitting someone in the head multiple times with a fire extinguisher might cause a hemorrhagic stroke, a literal bleed in the brain. Versus a spontaneous stroke, which at his age would affect 0.03% of the population to even occur, let alone be actively fatal, especially when the person was already in the hospital being monitored for the injuries TO THEIR HEAD.
That's the absolute risk for a 42-year-old individual having a stroke in the US in that year, a 1 in 1.2M risk that it happened in the 24 hours following that.
Poor Officer Sicknick, had the shit beat out of him and then suffered a 1 in a million "unrelated" stroke in the same 24 hours!
> His autopsy found that his death was due to "natural causes".
I love that you leave out the next fucking sentence, that even if you are playing pedant, still says this: "that the events that transpired on January 6 played a role in his death".
Piss off with the gaslighting bullshit. Yes, the Capitol Police issued a statement... as little more than damage control.
I can appreciate where you're coming from. Lies and liars piss me off, too. But it's simply a fact that Sicknick was not struck by a fire extinguisher. That claim was published repeatedly by many mainstream outlets (who happily spread all manner of lies in the immediate aftermath of Jan 6) based on "anonymous sources", but yhere is zero evidence that it happened.
Officer Sicknick (the cop who died of a stroke the next day) was pepper-sprayed by rioters, but not physically assaulted in a way which might cause a stroke. He did not collapse at the capital on Jan 6, but at 10PM the following day (your confusion on this point is understandable, given that the Wiki article deceptively implies that he collapsed on Jan 6). His autopsy found that his death was due to "natural causes".
The gaslighting around Jan 6 is really outrageous.