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Four law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol died by suicide in the days, weeks, and months following the riot, and one officer, U.S. Capitol Police O...
The officer who shot Ashli Babbitt was later identified as Lieutenant Michael Byrd of the U.S. Capitol Police, and subsequent official probes concluded his use of force was lawful and within departmen...
The record shows that at least one on-duty law enforcement officer, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, died the day after the January 6, 2021, attack, and multiple other officers who responde...
The reporting on how many law enforcement officers were injured on January 6, 2021, converges on a range rather than a single, undisputed figure: contemporaneous and later accounts commonly cite injur...
The publicly documented counts do not produce a single definitive total for Available official and reporting records establish that hundreds of local D.C. officers were engaged at the Capitol, the FBI...
Two law enforcement deaths are tied to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack in different ways: several officers were physically assaulted that day, and at least one Capitol Police officer who later die...
The officer who shot Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021, is a U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who initially remained unnamed but later identified in reporting; federal prosecutors declined to bring crimi...
Three days after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howie (Howard) Liebengood died by suicide, and subsequent reporting and official rulings have linked additi...
The most reliable, multi-source accounting concludes that — a figure that combines four people in the crowd and three law-enforcement officers who later took their own lives, according to a bipartisan...
Multiple major outlets report that President Donald Trump posted social media messages calling a group of Democratic lawmakers’ actions “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH,” prompting Democrats t...
The death toll from the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is contested in public reporting because counts depend on whether deaths that occurred days or months later and those of law‑enforce...
Officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, sustained a wide spectrum of injuries ranging from concussions and traumatic brain injuries to broken bones, lacerations, chemical exposure, ...
Reporting and official findings show that no law-enforcement officer was ruled to have been murdered on January 6, 2021; U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died the next day of natural causes ...
Multiple reputable sources identify the person who died on January 6, 2021, as Ashli Babbitt — a participant in the Capitol breach who was fatally shot by a U.S. Capitol Police officer while attemptin...
About 140 law‑enforcement officers were assaulted on January 6, 2021, with reporting documenting a wide range of wounds from bruises and lacerations to concussions, cracked ribs, spinal damage, loss o...
Two authoritative but differing tallies describe the nonfatal toll on officers from the January 6, 2021, attack: union and contemporaneous reporting put the figure at about , while a Government Accoun...
The Speaker of the House exercises influence over some aspects of Capitol security primarily through , but does not possess unilateral operational command over the Capitol Police or local D.C. law enf...
The primary on-the-ground responsibility for security at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, rested with the United States Capitol Police (USCP), led at the time by Chief Steven Sund; oversight and p...
Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, collapsed at work and died the day after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; the D.C. medical examiner ruled his death “natural causes” after he suffered two s...
Reporting in November 2025 tied former U.S. Capitol Police officer Shauni( or Shauna/Shauni Rae) Kerkhoff to the Jan. 5–6, 2021 pipe‑bomb case largely through a privately produced gait‑analysis match ...