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At least 138–174 law enforcement officers were reported injured in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, with dozens suffering concussions, traumatic brain injuries, cracked ribs, spinal da...
Officer Brian Sicknick died shortly after the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack and the District of Columbia medical examiner ruled his death — acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts caused by strokes —...
A handful of law‑enforcement officers who were on duty around the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack died in the days, weeks and months that followed; medical examiners and official reports have mostly r...
The question "How many federal officers were injured on January 6, 2021?" lacks a single undisputed tally across the presented sources, but multiple contemporaneous and later reports converge on that ...
Five law-enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack later died — one the day after the riot and four in the weeks and months that followed — but how those deaths are legally cla...
Three United States Capitol Police (USCP) officers are publicly recorded as having died in the line of duty in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack: Officer Brian Sicknick, Officer William “Bil...
Four law-enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol later died by suicide: Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers Jeffrey Smith, Gunther Hashida and K...
Five law-enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack subsequently died; the official findings show one death ruled natural causes (two strokes) and the others ruled sui...
One day after the Capitol breach, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died; the D.C. medical examiner ultimately concluded he died of natural causes (strokes) while noting that “all that transp...
Four law-enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol died by suicide in the weeks and months after the riot, and one officer, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sickni...
One United States Capitol Police (USCP) officer who responded to the January 6, 2021 attack died by suicide in the immediate aftermath of the riot: Howard Liebengood, who died on January 9, 2021 (a US...
A cluster of deaths tied to law-enforcement personnel who responded to January 6, 2021 includes one immediate line-of-duty fatality attributed to medical causes and multiple subsequent suicides; repor...
Multiple law-enforcement deaths have been officially tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, but the nature and legal classification of those deaths vary: U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s death ...
A small number of law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol died either on that day or in the weeks and months afterward from a mixture of causes: one o...
Police officers were among the dead directly and indirectly tied to the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack: four people died on the day itself and multiple law-enforcement officers died in the days, weeks...
Four law-enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol later died by suicide—Howard “Howie” Liebengood, Jeffrey Smith, Gunther Hashida and Kyle DeFreytag—and th...
The official investigations into deaths of law-enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach reached two clear, separate findings: medical examiners determined that Capitol...
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...