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On August 5, 2021, Sicknick, along with Capitol Police officers Howard Liebengood and Billy Evans, and Metropolitan Police officer Jeffrey L. Smith, was posthumously honored in a signing ceremony for a bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to Capitol Police and other January 6 responders. His name is noted in the text of the bill, and Biden ...
The first active-duty service member to be charged in relation to the events of January 6. He allegedly pushed through a line of police officers guarding the Capitol's East Rotunda doors, held them open for others to enter the building, and later pushed a Capitol police officer who attempted to close them. [173] [174] [175] January 19, 2021
Sicknick, a 42-year-old New Jersey native, died around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, one day after he was attacked by rioters who invaded the Capitol following an incendiary speech by President Trump to an ...
Peter Francis Stager is a truck driver from Conway, Arkansas [1] who was born in 1978 or 1979. [1]While participating in the January 6 United States Capitol attacks he assaulted a Metropolitan Police Department officer with a flagpole, striking him three times. [1]
Washington Police Chief Robert J. Contee III told a House committee in January that Officer Jeffrey Smith, a 12-year-veteran, had killed himself in the days after the Jan. 6 riots. Another officer ...
Capitol Police officers try to hold off Donald Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) More than 1,200 Capitol Police officers were working on U ...
[9] [10] Four people died that day: rioter Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer; two died of heart conditions; another died of an amphetamine intoxication. The next day, Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died after suffering two strokes, having been physically attacked and pepper sprayed during the riot. [11] [12] [13 ...
Capitol Police leadership had not planned for a riot or attack, [362] and on January 6, under "orders from leadership", the force deployed without riot gear, shields, batons, or "less lethal" arms such as sting grenades. Department riot shields had been improperly stored, causing them to shatter upon impact. [160]