Fact Check: Was Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Killed By Rioters?
On 2/24/21 at 6:01 PM EST
There has been widespread speculation on the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, whose death ignited an outpouring of emotion from Americans after he died following the January 6 Capitol riot.
Sicknick, 42, joined the Capitol police in 2008. He was an Air Force veteran who served in the New Jersey Air National Guard before becoming a police officer.
The Claim
Social media users have issued different claims about Sicknick s death while some wonder whether he was killed by rioters or not amid conflicting reports. Brian Sicknick was the capital police officer killed by rioters with a fire extinguisher, one user tweeted February 19.
Guard response to Capitol riots wasn’t hurt by politics, officials insist February 23 Members of the National Guard patrol the area outside of the U.S. Capitol on the third day of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, on Feb. 11, 2021. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) Former Capitol Hill security officials on Tuesday insisted their decision not to involve more National Guard forces ahead of the deadly attack on the Capitol building on Jan. 6 was the result of intelligence analysis that underrated the threat on Congress and not concerns about the “optics” of having military personnel on Capitol Hill.
Officer Brian Sicknick was among five people killed in the Jan. 6 chaos. Another two officers who responded to the bloody attack died of suicide days later.
Between now and the end of February, you are bound to see social media posts from people feeling a little rattled by the sound of loud aircraft flying over their homes at night in South Jersey. It happens everytime the 177th 'Jersey Devils' come out at night.
By Zack Budryk - 02/08/21 01:28 PM EST
A military veteran and Washington police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol in the Jan. 6 riots compared his experience to his service in Iraq in an interview with The New York Times, sharing that while there were some similarities, he was not “sprayed with bear spray in Iraq.
Sgt. Tyrone Gross, who served as an Army specialist in Iraq, said holding off the pro-Trump mob was “somewhat similar to being in Iraq,” and conceded that “the people who were at the Capitol that day were passionate,” much like the Iraqis he encountered.
“Except, I didn’t get sprayed with bear spray by people there, and I didn’t meet with as much resistance with people in Iraq as I did by the people at the Capitol,” he told the newspaper.