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The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is the national clearinghouse for line-of-duty death information
The deaths tied to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol include a small set of immediate fatalities on and around that day and additional law-enforcement deaths in the months that followed;...
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...
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...
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...
(NLEOMF) maintains an official, searchable database of the names and profiles of officers whose names are carved on the Memorial; the Memorial’s website hosts a “Fallen Officer Search” and a dedicated...
on January 6, 2021, died as part of the day's chaos or its immediate aftermath: one protester shot by police, at least two protesters who died that day of medical causes, and a officer who collapsed a...
Different outlets and government documents count Jan. 6 deaths in divergent ways because they use different definitions — some count only deaths that occurred on January 6, some include later deaths o...
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...
The available reporting does not provide the raw ages needed to compute an average age of ICE agents killed in the line of duty since 2020, so a numeric answer cannot be produced from the provided sou...
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...
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...
Official records and contemporaneous reporting place the number of law‑enforcement officers injured on January 6, 2021 at “more than 140,” with many of those classified as physical injuries ranging fr...