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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...
Available reporting and official timelines show that multiple service members and law-enforcement officers died in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, but the provided sources do not ...
Official findings and most mainstream reports identify Officer Brian Sicknick (U.S. Capitol Police) as having died the day after Jan. 6, 2021, from strokes ruled natural causes by the D.C. medical exa...
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...
The Justice Department and local pension/retirement boards have increasingly classified several post‑Jan. 6 officer suicides as line‑of‑duty deaths by applying a newly amended Public Safety Officers’ ...
Contemporary official and media records agree that four people died on January 6, 2021, at or immediately after the Capitol breach, but public reporting included differing tallies and varying levels o...
Reporting on the deaths of law enforcement linked to January 6, 2021, varied sharply over time: early media and some officials initially framed certain deaths as directly caused by the riot — most not...
Determinations that a death is “line‑of‑duty” hinge not on shorthand labels but on legal definitions, medical causation and administrative findings tying injury or trauma to the death — a process visi...
The official determinations for officers who died in 2021 after the January 6 riot were mixed: the medical examiner ruled U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s death to be by natural causes (tw...
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...
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...