There appears to be no video evidence of Officer Sicknick sustaining lethal injuries during the Capitol riots. After returning to his office he collapsed at some point, and died in a hospital the next day.
Sicknick was not brained with a fire extinguisher as the popular narrative has it. Medical examiners found no signs he suffered any blunt force trauma at all. CNN reports "it could not be learned" whether Sicknick (remember: a police officer) had a preexisting condition.
Police shot and killed one rioter. Three more died from medical emergencies: one had a heart attack, one suffered a stroke, and one was trampled to death.
Two Capitol police officers are reported to have died by suicide in the weeks following the attack, along with one rioter who shot himself in the chest in his basement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/second-officer-suicide-following-capitol-riot-463123
It's difficult to determine how many guns were carried by the thousands of rioters who actually breached the Capitol. Press reports often include seizures that happened before & after the riot in the surrounding area. On Jan 13, NBC put the number at "a dozen guns from 7 people"
Rioters were inside the Capitol building for about 4 hours. A couple of hours after they had left, the Senate reconvened to continue its normal business (no need for a crime scene investigation I guess!). Never a second where it looked like the military might support the rioters.
Does the way our press describes these events strike you as measured and accurate? Do the things that are being proposed in response strike you as proportionate?
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