Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick nonetheless is described as a sufferer of January 6, murdered by Trump supporters rioting on the Capitol, regardless of an post-mortem report which exhibits he died of a stroke the next day.
The New York Instances initially reported that Sicknick had been overwhelmed to loss of life with a fireplace extinguisher, earlier than retracting the declare greater than a month later.
To today, media accounts declare Sicknick was “slain” on Jan. 6, and highly effective Democrats, together with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi have continued to quote his loss of life as proof of a “lethal riot” on the Capitol that day.
However hitherto unseen surveillance footage from contained in the Capitol, aired by Fox Information host Tucker Carlson Monday night time, contradicts that declare.
It exhibits Officer Sicknick strolling by the constructing “after he was supposedly murdered by the mob exterior.”
Sicknick seems to be wholesome and strolling usually within the footage.
He gesticulates to protesters to maneuver out of the constructing, and bends down to maneuver a placard behind a statue.
He is also carrying a helmet so, as Carlson factors out, “it’s exhausting to think about he was killed by a head harm.
“No matter occurred to Brian Sicknick was very clearly not the results of violence he suffered on the entrance to the Capitol. This tape overturns the only strongest and politically helpful lie the Democrats have advised us about January 6.”
Digital bookmarks archived on the Capitol database present that the Jan. 6 committee examined the identical footage of a wholesome Sicknick strolling across the Capitol after the violence ended.
However Carlson says “they refused to launch this tape to the general public as a result of this tape would shatter the fraud they have been perpetrating on the nation, as a result of hiding the reality served their political pursuits.”
