'This Political Climate Got My Brother Killed': Family Of Officer Who Died Defending Capitol Waits For Answers.
January 8, 2021 5:07 p.m. This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The grieving family of a slain Capitol Police officer says he was a private man whose death shouldn’t be politicized. But now, it is forced to make sense of the reality that he is a victim of political violence, his legacy forever linked to an insurrection in the U.S. Capitol. “He spent his life trying to help other people,” the officer’s eldest brother...