I recall nothing about any law enforcement dying that day, all I recall is the woman shot in the capitol building.

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: By Mark Alexander

: I have waited five weeks to write what I instinctively
: suspected a day after Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick
: died. I waited, anticipating that evidence would emerge
: confirming Officer Sicknick's actual cause of death, and
: hoping for evidence to dissuade the inescapable conclusion
: that, irrespective of how he died, Rep. Nancy Pelosi
: (D-CA), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), et al., used his casket

: as a political prop for their impeachment inquisition of
: former President Donald Trump.

: Having started my career as a law enforcement officer, I did
: not want to make assertions or draw conclusions about a
: fellow officer's death without evidence to back it up. For
: the same reason, news of his death exponentially elevated
: my anger at the Capitol rioters.

: What follows is a painful inquiry into the death of Officer
: Sicknick — what we know and what we don't know.

: What we know about Brian's life

: Officer Sicknick was a 42-year-old New Jersey native, the
: youngest of Gladys and Charles Sicknick's three boys. Six
: months after graduating high school in 1997, though he
: aspired to be a police officer, he joined the New Jersey
: Air National Guard, serving from 1997 through 2003 with the
: 108th Air Refueling Wing out of Joint Base
: McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. He deployed with Operation Southern
: Watch in 1999 and Operation Enduring Freedom in 2003. He
: received an honorable discharge as an E-6, a staff
: sergeant, and returned to New Jersey where he worked
: several jobs.

: In 2008, he moved to Springfield, Virginia, to fulfill his
: goal of becoming a police officer, joining the United
: States Capitol Police, but remained an avid fan of the New
: Jersey Devils hockey team. He loved his Dachshund dogs.

: On 06 January of this year, Brian responded to the Capitol
: riot as part of USCP's first responder unit. He honored his
: oath "to support and defend" our Constitution,
: and he served with distinction. The evening of that
: disgraceful riot, he texted his brother Ken, noting,
: "I got pepper-sprayed twice," adding that he was
: in good shape. But he collapsed later in the evening.

: End of Watch for Brian was the next day, 07 January, at 2130.

: What we can also say for certain about Officer Sicknick is
: that he was professional and universally liked. To that
: end, he was a typical Trump supporter — nothing like the
: rioters he confronted in the Capitol building. According to
: former House Speaker staffer Caroline Behringer, Brian was
: "outspoken" in regard to his support of President
: Trump: "We would kind of trade jabs about who was
: going to win and kind of make fun of each other for our
: sides being in the lead."

: At the time of his death, his brother Ken offered, "Brian
: is a hero — that is what we would like people to remember.
: ... He served his country honorably in both Operation
: Enduring Freedom and Operation Desert Shield, of which my
: family is very proud."

: His family issued the following statement: "Many details
: regarding Wednesday's events and the direct causes of
: Brian's injuries remain unknown and our family asks the
: public and the press to respect our wishes in not making
: Brian's passing a political issue. Please honor Brian's
: life and service..."

: At Arlington National Cemetery, fellow veteran Dan Crenshaw
: (R-TX), delivered a fitting tribute, including the
: following remarks: "After he was injured on January
: 6th, he spent his last remaining hours texting fellow
: officers and checking in on them. People needed Brian,
: because he was a good man, because he was one of our best.
: ... He lived for others. ... There is another common thread
: that links those buried here at Arlington with Brian. These
: are protectors. These are the men and women that stand in
: the breach. That gap between the helpless and the
: aggressor, between right and wrong, between good and evil.
: Many like to think they too could stand in that gap, but
: they'd be wrong."

: Crenshaw continued: "It is men like Brian that remind us
: of the grit and tenacity and good character that America
: was built on. He may not be with us anymore, but if we are
: to honor him then we should do so by using his memory as a
: reminder of what this country can be. A reminder that there
: are indeed more like him. A reminder that the bravery and
: love inside of Brian Sicknick is not peculiar to him, but
: part of the American DNA. A reminder that our duty is to
: make these heroes proud, prove to them that their sacrifice
: was for a country worth sacrificing for. That we are a
: people worth sacrificing for. With men like Brian standing
: in the gap, it is hard to imagine that we are not."

: He concluded: "This is still the greatest country on
: earth. This is still the great American experiment that has
: done more good for mankind than any other civilization in
: history. We will not forget that fact just because times
: are hard. We will persevere and strive to be better, and do
: justice to the memory of those buried here. Officer Brian
: Sicknick, may you rest easy here on these hallowed grounds.
: You are in good company. You have undoubtedly earned your
: place here amongst America's best. God bless you. God bless
: this great country."

: What we don't know about Brian's death

: What we don't know about the death of Officer Sicknick far
: outweighs what we do know. I believe that Officer Sicknick
: died of causes related to Capitol riot — doing his job that
: day — but there is as of yet no evidence to support that
: conclusion.

: Whatever happened to this honorable and respected public
: servant was tragic, but it is likely not the narrative
: ubiquitously propagated by Democrat Party principals and
: their Leftmedia publicists since 08 January. It was then
: that The New York Times reported that Officer Sicknick was
: murdered by an assailant who struck him in the head with a
: fire extinguisher.

: On 02 February, even CNN reported that investigators were not
: able to build a murder case, noting: "Authorities have
: reviewed video and photographs that show Sicknick engaging
: with rioters amid the siege but have yet to identify a
: moment in which he suffered his fatal injuries. ... It's
: still not known publicly what caused him to collapse the
: night of the insurrection. ... According to one law
: enforcement official, medical examiners did not find signs
: that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma, so
: investigators believe that early reports that he was
: fatally struck by a fire extinguisher are not true. One
: possibility being considered by investigators is that
: Sicknick became ill after interacting with a chemical
: irritant. ... But investigators reviewing video of the
: officer's time around the Capitol haven't been able to
: confirm that in tape that has been recovered so far."

: Notably, 10 days after the CNN report — and after the
: Democrats' final day of impeachment "evidence" in
: which they repeated The New York Times claim, "The
: insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by
: striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher" —
: The Times quietly updated its 08 January story, now
: asserting, "Medical experts have said he did not die
: of blunt force trauma..."

: This after the Times's report had been repeated thousands of
: times by its downstream Leftmedia outlets.

: According to the Times, its update was based on "new
: information," but an original report from the Capitol
: Police the same day as the 08 January Times report
: indicated Brian had died of a stroke.

: As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy observed, if
: Officer Sicknick's death "did not happen the way the
: House Democratic impeachment managers have represented that
: it happened, we should be told that — and be told why such
: an inflammatory allegation was made in the impeachment
: article and repeated in the pretrial memo." After the
: Times's correction, McCarthy now insists, "It is vital
: that we have an accurate accounting of what happened on
: January 6, including an accurate accounting of what
: happened to Officer Brian Sicknick. And since impeachment
: was pursued, we are also owed an explanation of why the
: House managers did not clarify the circumstances of
: Sicknick's death after making an explosive allegation about
: how it came to pass."

: In late January, Washington Examiner Chief Political
: Correspondent Byron York sent an inquiry to the USCP asking
: among other points for clarification about Officer
: Sicknick's death. He has not received answers to any of his
: questions.

: According to a law enforcement journal, "The Office of
: the Chief Medical Examiner in Washington, D.C. [indicated]
: its medical examiners 'comply with the National Association
: of Medical Examiners standard to determine the cause and
: manner of death within 90 days; however, for cases that are
: more complex it could be longer.'" But Sicknick's
: remains were cremated shortly after his death.

: There is speculation now that Brian's death was associated
: with chemical irritants sprayed during the riots. However,
: the ME's cause-of-death determination should not be
: something bantered about in a House committee for months —
: his autopsy findings should be released now.

: What we know about the Capitol rioters and Capitol Police
: response

: Two things we know about the Capitol riot.

: First, the fractional faction of jackass thugs who rioted in
: the Capitol certainly did not, by appearance or action,
: represent "Trump supporters." This small atypical
: break-off group of violent radicals, clearly
: distinguishable from the otherwise lawful and respectful
: Trump rally attendees, were less likely inspired to
: violence by anything Donald Trump said that day than they
: were by the type of rhetoric spewed by a primary benefactor
: and promoter of that rally: fringe conspiracy theory
: agitator and perpetual charlatan Alex Jones.

: Second, the reason Capitol Police were unprepared, and the
: National Guard was not on standby, is, as I noted the day
: after the riot, everybody expected Trump rally supporters
: to act like they always have — with civility and respect.
: What happened on the Capitol grounds on 06 January was
: unprecedented for any Trump rally over the last five years.

: That being said, personally, I think the violent Capitol
: rioters, those who battled police, should be strung up.
: Period.

: What we know about the Biden and Harris response

: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were very clear in their
: condemnation of the "racist" Capitol Police.

: Recall what Biden said about how Capitol Police handled the
: riot: "Not only did we see the failure to protect one
: of the three branches of our government, we also saw a
: clear failure to carry out equal justice. No one can tell
: me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter
: protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very
: differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.
: We all know that's true. And it is unacceptable."

: Likewise, Harris condemned the Capitol Police: "We
: witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let
: extremists storm the United States Capitol, and another
: that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last
: summer." (Ah yes, that brazen "peaceful
: protester" lie.)

: However, now that Pelosi and Schumer have reframed the riot to
: "praise the police," Biden and Harris are on
: board!

: What we know about the response of Pelosi, Schumer, and their
: cop-hating legions

: Democrats have a long and sordid history of using the caskets
: of victims as staging platforms for their political agenda.
: We have witnessed, repeatedly, how Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
: Schumer are so drunk on power and insulated from reality
: that they arrogantly believe they can use the murder of
: innocents as political fodder. But surely they would not be
: so brazen as to use the remains of a Capitol Police officer
: as a political prop for their impeachment charade.

: I have spoken with career senior law enforcement professionals
: across the nation in recent weeks who share my concern
: about the politicization of Brian's death.

: Last June, after Pelosi and Schumer kneeled for George Floyd
: in the Capitol rotunda — which helped to ignite their
: constituents' "summer of rage," I started posting
: tributes honoring police officers murdered in the line of
: duty, and asking Pelosi and Schumer why they refuse to take
: a knee for them.

: Of course, George Floyd was just a Capitol prop for Pelosi and
: Schumer.

: I recently referenced historian Victor Davis Hanson's summary
: of the leftist violence in the name of Floyd:
: "torching federal court houses and police precincts,
: 700 policemen injured, 40 people dead, $4-$5 billion in
: damages."

: In the five months ahead of the 2020 election, almost all
: Democrat Party hate hustlers watched in deafening silence
: as their Marxist "Black Lives Matter"
: constituents and their "antifa movement"
: constituents battled with police, burned and looted
: businesses, and murdered citizens.

: One of those murdered was a black police captain, David Dorn,
: killed by a black assailant during one of the St. Louis
: riots. No Pelosi or Schumer recognition for Captain Dorn...

: For the record, Hanson's list did not include the significant
: increase in the murders of Hispanic and Black people in the
: wake of the Demos' "defund the police"
: initiatives. Consequently, it is absurdly humorous that the
: NAACP is suing Trump and others for inciting the Capitol
: riot, but have yet to sue any of their Democrat benefactors
: for inciting riots nationwide.

: However, notwithstanding any limits on their abject hypocrisy,
: Pelosi and Schumer were finally able to identify one riot
: during the past four years they and their ilk can condemn,
: ad infinitum — the one perpetrated in the Capitol building.

: And now, despite months of their incessant claims of
: "systemic racism" and relentless accusations that
: racist police are the problem, Pelosi, Schumer, and their
: fellow leftists have finally found a police officer they
: can praise, and an entire police department to which they
: can give a Congressional Gold Medal.

: On 29 January, Pelosi and Schumer announced that Officer
: Sicknick's remains would lie in honor in the Capitol
: rotunda, a measure supported by Republicans.

: Honoring capital police officers is not unprecedented. On 28
: July 1998, two Capitol Police officers were honored with
: Capitol services — four days after their murder. But
: Officer Sicknick's funeral was almost four weeks after his
: death, just ahead of the Democrats' impeachment proceedings
: in the same building.

: But, as the editors of Law Officer journal ask: "Why
: Sicknick? Why now? What if he died at the hands of a
: left-wing mob? Would his death be treated with the same
: reverence by Democrats? We doubt it."

: Likewise, political analyst Miranda Devine called out Pelosi's
: "cynical timing: "The newfound faux reverence for
: law enforcement from the House speaker and her 'defund the
: police' comrades after cheering on and inciting violence
: against cops most of last year is grotesque. Despite
: Pelosi's nauseating insincerity as she presided over the
: two-day commemoration of Brian Sicknick, the dignity and
: grace of his grieving parents and police colleagues
: mercifully elevated the honors high above tawdry political
: opportunism. Because, of course, what else is it but
: cynical opportunism of ญPelosi to wait 27 days after
: Sicknick's death to offer his family the opportunity to
: bury him with full honors, less than a week before her
: second impeachment show trial of Donald Trump hits the
: Senate."

: It would have been more honorable to have held this ceremony
: within a week of Brian's death, as was the case for the
: last USCP officers honored, and in accordance with the
: wishes of his family that his death NOT be politicized.

: And now that the second Democrat impeachment charade has
: concluded, how can Pelosi and Schumer perpetuate using the
: Capitol riot and Brian's death to inflict maximum damage on
: Donald Trump — and by extension all his former
: administration supporters — in order to ensure that he, and
: we, are lightning rods for any further violence, which the
: Demos are baiting?

: Well, by announcing a "9/11-type" commission,
: ostensibly "To protect our security, our security, our
: security..."

: According to Pelosi, Congress will "investigate and
: report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6,
: 2021 domestic terrorist attack," adding, "It is
: clear from the findings and from the impeachment trial that
: we must get to the truth of how this happened."

: What is actually very "clear" is that the Capitol
: riot should never be mentioned in the context of the 9/11
: Islamist attack on our nation, though it would certainly be
: fitting to mention it in relation to the Demo-constituent
: riots over the last eight months.

: As for "the facts" and "the truth," expect
: exactly none of that from Pelosi and Schumer — or the
: Biden/Harris regime. This "commission" will
: devolve into another staging platform for the next round of
: deep-state fabrications, this time aimed at congressional
: Republicans ahead of the 2022 midterm election.

: Of course, they're also taking aim at YOU and all grassroots
: Americans, whom they have now labeled
: "terrorists."

: Meanwhile, despite their newfound appreciation for police, the
: Demos remain silent about their leftist constituents who
: continue to assault police officers at an unprecedented
: rate.

: Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
: Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776