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Two different tallies circulate: , and others — including several law enforcement officers who died in the days, weeks or months afterward — bring a broader count often reported as connected to the ev...
Benjamin (Ben) Phillips, 50, who died on January 6, 2021 near the U.S. Capitol during the riot, was initially reported by fellow protesters and police as having suffered a “medical emergency” or strok...
Different news organizations and fact‑checking groups converged around a core set of — four civilians who died that day plus — but they diverge when counting subsequent law‑enforcement suicides and at...
Contemporary reporting and public records show that four people died on , at or immediately surrounding the : one person was shot by a , two died of heart-related conditions, and one died of an amphet...
Five people who attended or responded to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol died in the immediate aftermath, with official determinations dividing those deaths between a police shooting, n...
Different outlets reported for deaths tied to January 6, 2021, producing a mix of immediate casualty counts, later medical rulings, and evolving accounts of officer suicides and line-of-duty determina...