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There was a brief period where a police officer was reported as having been murdered by rioters at the Capitol [0], and iirc many people on social media conflat

There was a brief period where a police officer was reported as having been murdered by rioters at the Capitol [0], and iirc many people on social media conflated his death with footage of a riot officer being struck on the head by a fire hydrant, though I don't believe they were the same man. An investigation revealed that he'd died of a stroke the day after the riot, and that his death could not be directly connected to the Capitol riot. [0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/brian-sicknick-police-officer-killed-in-insurrection-to-lie-in-honor-at-capitol/ar-BB1ddV5v https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/brian-sicknick-police-o... [1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/brian-sicknick-death-us-capitol-riot/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/brian-sicknick-death...

Leparamour 5y ago
Also not without instrumentalizing Sicknick's death to further the 'orange man bad' narrative. "Neutral" NPR reporting on this: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963336791/brian-sicknick-capitol-police-officer-slain-in-riot-will-lie-in-honor-in-rotunda https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963336791/brian-sicknick-capi...
AnimalMuppet 5y ago
OK, but an officer being struck on the head by a fire extinguisher (not hydrant, IIRC) could be classified as "accidentally not murdered"; that is, the only reason it wasn't murder is because he survived an attack that easily could have killed him. "He wasn't murdered" doesn't exonerate the rioters; it merely says that they were unlucky or unskilled.