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Law enforcement deaths tied to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including the nature and legal classification of those deaths.
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...
The District of Columbia chief medical examiner concluded that U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes — specifically "acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute ba...
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...
Medical testimony and autopsy findings have been central both to the criminal record tied to January 6 and to the wider public arguments about responsibility and memory: forensic evidence and expert w...
Multiple post–Jan. 6 law enforcement deaths have been linked to the trauma of that day, but the official forensic and administrative rulings are mixed: the D.C. medical examiner concluded Officer Bria...