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The available materials state that in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, while reporting on individual cases such as Officer Brian Sicknick’s death and subsequent officer suicides, but as a dir...
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...
Coverage of ’s death shifted from early reports that he was bludgeoned or fatally exposed to a chemical irritant during the attack to a consensus grounded in the medical examiner’s ruling that he suff...
Available reporting gives different tallies of officers injured on Jan. 6 but provides limited, inconsistent details about how many of those injuries were specifically classified as concussions or “he...
The available reporting and official filings show that the most common injuries to law-enforcement officers at the January 6, 2021 Capitol breach were , with several officers also reporting more serio...
Public reporting and official probes count multiple deaths connected to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — not a single death — with contemporaneous accounts saying four people died the...
Federal reporting in 2021 counted roughly 140 law-enforcement officers who sustained nonfatal physical injuries in the attack on the , with ’s public findings characterizing the toll as “more than 140...
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...
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...
Multiple contemporary reports agree that the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol produced a wide range of on responding officers. Published reporting and institutional summaries cite roughly ,...