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Manhattan: To help set a sad record straight about deaths and injuries suffered by five police officers in connection with Jan. 6: One Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, died of multiple strokes that occurred hours after his confrontation with the protesters. Coincidence? The medical examiner didn't think so, noting, "All that transpired played a role in his condition." Officer Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department, a mentally stable person who received a blow to his head during the riot, began exhibiting symptoms he never showed before and died by suicide nine days later. Another officer, Howard S. Liebengood of the Capitol Police, also died by suicide just three days after the attack. ....
Mineola, L.I.: Notwithstanding Michael D’Antonio’s admonitory op-ed about a resurgent Trump in 2024 (“Be afraid: Trump 2024 is a real threat to America,” Nov. 20), the Mar-a-Lago miscreant’s egocentrism and incessant focus on the Big Lie regarding the 2020 election will prove to be his undoing. ....
Brooklyn: Mayor Adams shared that he takes the M15 bus to work. MTA workers do not have to get a COVID-19 shot. They only have to take COVID tests. Seventy-five percent of MTA workers are vaccinated, a far lower percentage than other agencies. Yet here is the mayor, talking and fist-bumping with a bus driver. ....
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White Plains, N.Y.: The Steelers-Browns game was rigged. Many of the Browns points were fake points and should be disqualified. A lot of fine Americans but I don’t know any names say that another team or party of teams broke into Heinz Field and changed the night lights to ultraviolet lights, temporarily blinding the Steelers players. ....