Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton incorrectly claimed that the Capitol rioters “killed a police officer.”
Clinton’s comment came regarding a rebuke of Republican lawmakers for voting against the creation of a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Capitol riot.
“An angry mob attacked our Capitol, our lawmakers, and our election,” she said Friday. “They killed a policeman. And Republican leaders would rather we all not know more about what happened.”
JEN PSAKI CLAIMS ‘A NUMBER OF OFFICERS’ DIED THE DAY OF THE CAPITOL RIOT
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The Capitol Police announced that Officer Brian Sicknick, a 42-year-old who joined the agency in 2008, died Jan. 7, one day after the riot. After months of speculation, on April 19, the medical examiner ruled his death was not a result of being hit with a chemical spray or that his death was caused by being hit with a fire extinguisher, but rather that he died after suffering two strokes.
Sicknick’s “cause of death” was “acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis” (a stroke) and that the “manner of death” was “natural,” the medical examiner’s office told the Washington Examiner at the time.
Sicknick was sprayed with a chemical substance around 2:20 p.m. Jan. 6, collapsed at the Capitol around 10 p.m., and was transported by emergency services to a local hospital, the office said, adding that he died around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 7.
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Four people died on the day of the riot, though only one was ruled a homicide. Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Navy veteran, was shot and killed as she tried to breach a door leading to the House chamber, and the unnamed officer who killed her was not charged in connection to her death.
In the days following the Capitol riot, Metropolitan Police officer Jeffrey Smith and Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood both died by suicide.
