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by Jonnax 1909 days ago
Right. The officer just randomly died the next day. People tend to randomly drop dead.

So what about the officers that weren't killed?

Plenty of videos of them being beaten with pipes.

One officer crushed against a door.

What do you think of the officer that was hit.with a stun gun 6 times and lost the tip of their finger? [1]

The police union says that one officer got their eye injured so bad that they lost it [2]

At the end of the day I presume Trump supporters don't care.

What justification to say it was bad do you have for the video where Babbit was shot? The people there were trying to smash a door on which the other side were politicians.

When people were protesting police brutality they were quick to shout #BlueLivesMatter.

But when Trump decided that he could pretend that millions of votes were fake and try and steal an election, his supporters were the "good guys" breaking into the capitol.

All their challenges failed in the courts but curiously they were only challenging results in districts which were majority minority. Not white majority districts which used the same voting methodology.

You say that it's SOP to manufacture consent. But every speech about taking the capital from Trump to Cruz on that day did exactly that in the minds of these people.

They talked about storming the capital. And that's what they did.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-ca...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/27/us/biden-trump-impea...

1 comments

The New York Times retracted their Sicknick story because it was false. All current indications are that Sicknick died of a heart attack, perhaps the stress and anxiety he felt that day aggravated his pre-existing issues but calling that murder is an impossible stretch.
> All current indications are that Sicknick died of a heart attack, perhaps the stress and anxiety he felt that day aggravated his pre-existing issues but calling that murder is an impossible stretch.

No, it is well within the established caselaw surrounding ‘homicide by heart attack’, where other factors (such as the felony murder rule) establish that if the death was homicide, it would be murder.

see, for instance, https://www.somerset-kentucky.com/homicide-by-heart-attack/a...