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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...
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...
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, ...
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...
Capitol Police officers reported a wide range of injuries immediately after the January 6 attack, from concussions and traumatic brain injuries to broken ribs, smashed spinal discs, loss of an eye, st...
The reporting aggregated here shows that , a figure repeatedly cited in accounts of that day and underscored by graphic first‑hand accounts from officers who were assaulted. That total is large compar...
There is no single public, government-maintained list that names every officer injured on January 6, 2021 and catalogues each of their medical details; federal reports and news outlets estimate about ...
A range of long-term medical harms has been documented or alleged among law-enforcement officers who responded to January 6, 2021, but public reporting does not provide a single, exhaustive clinical i...
Medical and law-enforcement reporting from the days and months after January 6, 2021, shows that the most common injuries sustained by people at the Capitol were blunt-force trauma (bruises, laceratio...
Official tallies and reporting place the scale of police injuries on January 6 in the low hundreds: sources cite roughly 138–140 officers hurt that day, with dozens suffering serious trauma and at lea...