More on Officer Sicknick’s death
[NOTE: Please see my previous posts on this subject.]
Here’s a recent interview with Officer Sicknick’s mother. Note that it’s in the British paper The Daily Mail. It’s not unusual for British papers to cover events in the US more thoroughly than our own MSM, and to publish things the left wouldn’t be enthusiastic about here:
The mother of the US Capitol police officer who died following the riot on January 6 believes that her son succumbed to a fatal stroke – that he was not bludgeoned to death by a fire extinguisher as reported.
Yet more than one month after Officer Brian Sicknick’s death on January 7, she has admitted that they are still in the dark as to what exactly caused that catastrophic episode.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com Gladys Sicknick, 74, was unequivocal in her assertion that Officer Brian Sicknick was not struck on the head and that as far as the family knows her son had a fatal stroke.
She said, ‘He wasn’t hit on the head no. We think he had a stroke, but we don’t know anything for sure.
‘We’d love to know what happened.’
Please let that sink in: apparently the family has not been told the results of any autopsy. Has there been an autopsy prior to Officer Sicknick’s cremation? I have never read anything that indicates an answer to that question.
More:
But in the six weeks since his death the truth has taken a backseat to the myth of the brutal attack. Democratic Impeachment Managers even brazenly cited the incident – that he was stricken in the head by a fire extinguisher – as fact in pre-trial articles filed February 2 despite already growing doubts.
Now DailyMail.com has unpacked fact from fiction in an attempt to extract Sicknick’s death from the misinformation in which it was mired before it even happened.
Please read the whole thing. You probably know most of it, because it’s been covered on this blog several times since January, but here’s an excerpt:
…January 8, Sicknick’s father, Charles, 81, told Reuters that on January 7, as they rushed from their homes in New Jersey to DC, the family were told that Sicknick had a blood clot on his brain and had suffered a stroke. He was being kept alive on a ventilator but was dead by the time they got there.
Yet these few publicly available facts were bulldozed over by political fervor and it was the unattributed account of a brutal attack, also reported by the Associated Press, that gained traction.
Less than 24 hours after his death, with no autopsy, no confirmation of any sign of blunt trauma, no investigation nor due process, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the ‘perpetrators’ of Sicknick’s ‘attack’ to be brought to justice and vowed, ‘We will not forget.’
Despite the family’s earnest desire to the contrary, Sicknick’s death was politicized and seized on as an exemplar of all of the savagery of the pro-Trump mob’s assault on the temple of American democracy.
There’s a helpful timeline at the article, too.
The following is true of most press and pundits on both left and right, who for the most part swallowed the fire extinguisher story without checking it out or paying attention to the family’s statements of what medical authorities had told them:
…[T]he narrative continued to run unchecked with not one leader acknowledging the ongoing investigation or the complete absence of any certainty amid the melee of misreporting…
On February 2 CNN reported that investigators were ‘vexed’ by the lack of evidence linking anyone with Sicknick’s death. According to their source medical examiners had found no sign of blunt trauma.
Yet that very day Democratic Impeachment Managers filed their pre-trial articles in which they ignored all doubts and evidence to the contrary and stated as fact, ‘The insurgents killed a Capitol police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.’
The left is now trying to work the pepper spray angle – the idea that pepper spray wielded by some of the rioters might have caused his death. In very rare cases it can cause a spike in blood pressure – perhaps that’s what happened to Officer Sicknick, although the blood clot story doesn’t seem to support that. At any rate, we’ve not heard anything about Officer Sicknick’s blood pressure when arriving at the hospital.
The Daily Mail article also mentions that pepper spray was used on January by both police and the rioters, so it would be next to impossible to say who wielded the spray that got Sicknick, and of course it was certainly a delayed reaction on his part if he had a reaction to it at all, because there were many hours between the demonstration and his collapse and in the meantime he reported feeling fine. Unless a video is found of someone spraying him directly, it may always remain up in the air, but the left is clinging to it as a possible way to continue to blame the rioters.
Just as new information about Sicknick will probably not have any effect whatsoever on the public perception of 1/6, following the relentless barrage of misinformation and disinformation from the MSM, so, too, it is likely, that even if Chauvin’s attorneys mount a good defense based on all the exculpatory evidence thus far made available (and there undoubtedly exists more which will only become public in the course of next month’s trial), much of our citizenry, and almost all those who wield actual power, will continue to believe the falsehoods surrounding these events which are mandated by their ideology.
And they were certainly in a rush to burn the evidence.
This entire thing is a joke. What is the name of the person who shot the unarmed Ashlii Babbitt?
The capitol police have resisted FOI requests for the identity of the shooter. They are remarakably uncooperative. Have you seen the new police chief? A black fat female who says white malitas are planing to blow up the capitol. I think this woman should see a mental health professional between trips to the fat farm.
As I tell people. When I want to know what is going on in America I read the British newspapers (not BBC). The Gateway Pundit has ID’ed the person who shot Ashli Babbitt but has not published the name. Word is that he is on Pelosi’s personal security detail.
The new police chief had a vote of confidence that was less than 25%. The Capital Police know that she was put in place to execute (and I use that word deliberately) Pelosi’s orders.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/breaking-exclusive-police-lieutenant-shot-killed-ashli-babbitt-lead-murder-suspect-ashli-babbitt-case/
I’m not surprised that this became a political football, no doubt at Pelosi’s request. But trying to understand how the sausage got made is most confusing.
February 2
CNN report that investigators are ‘vexed’ by a lack of evidence and that medical examiners have found no sign of blunt force trauma.
February 17
The Medical Examiner has yet to release a cause of death.
Is it possible that the ME has done some type of examination that does not yield an autopsy report? I doubt it, but I suppose it is possible. So probably an autopsy exists, but is currently held in secrecy.
And the man was cremated, but the family has no idea what happened to him? How does that work? Officials perhaps told the family that the autopsy report would be issued shortly and to go ahead and cremate him? That sounds a little gullible to me, but the alternative explanations are worse.
NBC News is yet another example of these lying ambulatory containers of excreta:
Second officer from Capitol riot dies by suicide, police chief says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/second-officer-capitol-riot-dies-suicide-police-chief-says-n1256003
Dated — Jan. 28, 2021
Money Quote about Slicknick.
Note the extreme weasel words, which allow them to repeat as though valid, something which, by 1/28, was pretty much a known lie.
Hey, i met a 10yo child who”reported that biden had oral sex from his entire 5th grade class.”
I suspect the quality of reporting, considering the source, from the 10yo is higher quality.
>:-(
Maybe the reason for the suicides has more to do with the lies they are being forced to bear witness to. :-/
I’m wagering the Democratic Party agent functioning as US Attorney in DC told the police not to release any information. Nowadays, I assume that prosecutors are untrustworthy unless they demonstrate otherwise.
NB, we have a pretty satisfactory idea of why the report hasn’t been released. It’s inconvenient to the Democratic Party and their pets in the media.
There is something terribly amiss with the Sicknick family’s alleged ignorance.
Are they really claiming that his MDs in hospital told them nothing about his diagnosis? In caring for a man at death’s door?
I do not for an instant believe that.
There is a great deal of coverup to the Sicknick story. I have previously (more than once?) detailed my suspicion that he had a catastrophic rupture of a berry aneurysm, with a consequent “blood clot” within and around the brain. If not an uncontrolled severe hypertensive, that is, which can cause a hemorrhagic stroke.
We live in a new police state in which 1200 Capitol cops could somehow not handle 800 Capitol trespassers without one of them shooting to kill–a single shot, most unusual.
We are no longer citizens. We are serfs, vermin, told only what they “need” to tell us.
The first rule of assassination is… assassinate the assassin.
Who are going to believe … the mans mother or the MSM?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9275449/Mom-Capitol-police-officer-Brian-Sicknick-believes-died-stroke.html
I’m going with the mans mother.
oppps my bad … didn’t read before commenting.
“but the left is clinging to it as a possible way to continue to blame the rioters. neo
They’re far past the point of needing an excuse. Reality is whatever they say it is…
Nope, not sure I’m buying it. It doesn’t add up in quite a few ways. While I understand and sympathize with a mother’s grief, this one is badly off key; the best she can do is say “We’d love to know…blah blah” What? You’d love to know? It sounds like she’s at a block party and curious about the recipe for that delicious bean dip.
Why are there not lawyers filing suits demanding to know cause of death and right now, goddamnit?. Because it is the family’s right to know the cause of death in the case they wish to file wrongful death suits – and the cause of death is most certainly known. This ought to be meat & potatoes work for any qualified trail lawyer. Calling Robert Barnes……..
The reason this is not making sense to me: Who but the family agreed to letting a Democrat-led Congress use the body of Brian Sicknick, a vigorous Trump Supporter, be placed to lie in state in the Capitol as a poorly-justified rebuke and attack on President Trump? Is the family this easily influenced? There’s more to this story than meets the eye, I believe.
To give the Sicknick family the benefit of the doubt they may be caught up in something they never bargained for or dreamed of. Who knows what they’ve been told? Or who told them. Or what they were told they should do.
If you’ve seen the movie “Some Like It Hot” think about why Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon decided to get up in drag and join an all-female band. We may be dealing with something like that here.
I head off into serious conspiracy thinking about Jan. 6. I admire the restraint of most Republicans to refrain, at least in public discourse.
There’s an odor of decay in Denmark.
I am with FOAF on this one. Like the Seth Rich family there are pressures coming at them they cannot divulge and being compensated for doing so. These are totalitarians we are dealing with and they are ruthless.
By the way listen to this Biden speech in Texas with a handler. Bongino reported that his Secret Service buddies are saying there is something seriously amiss in the White House. Jill Biden through the chief of staff Ron Klain is trying to do the Edith Wilson tactic but it isn’t working. I expect that Kama Sutra will be taking over very soon.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/ignored-fake-news-media-joe-biden-completely-lost-texas-even-handler-tow-video/
Good summary at Meaning in History working off the Don Surber article.
https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2021/02/whos-in-charge.html#comment-form
The State of the Union speech, whenever it happens, would be the perfect optics time for Biden to resign for health reasons and “Kama Sutra” to be sworn in live on TV by Roberts and then she’d deliver the address.
I am Spartacus,
As I wrote on the post about Cuomo, this has me rather concerned. Your comments lend credence to the distinct possibility that hidden forces are moving the chess pieces for some future scenario. Bongino has always come across as courageous and credible. I don’t think he’d risk his reputation spreading false rumors and it seems likely he continues to have contacts in the White House and Secret Service, since he was a member of the Secret Service.
The fact that folks would be playing politics in DC isn’t news, but what is disconcerting to me about this is how much power the hands behind the scenes appear to have. How quickly and all pervasive the attack on Cuomo was. Why is this news about Kamala being upset she was not informed of the airstrike seemingly everywhere? It’s odd to see typically Dem friendly outlets so quickly propagating stories that hurt Dems. There must be method to which Dems are being hurt and a motive as to why.
geoff+b,
That seems unlikely to me. My guess is we’d see Biden and Harris appear and announce a sort-of co-Presidency with only mention of fatigue, no mention of cognitive decline. “The President is sharing some of his duties with the Vice President for such and such a reason…”
Then, after having us get used to seeing Ms. Harris in some staff meetings, meetings with foreign dignitaries and other things, along with interviews with Slow Joe praising her for her performance and thanking her for helping out. Then, once that all seems normal Slow Joe announces he’s delegating the bulk of the work to her.
Slow Joe thinks Dr Jill is playing Edith Bunker? (Jean Stapelton, RIP)
Rufus T. Firefly:
You are probably right.
I’m just kicking off from all the stories, like Hunter and the girls, nukes, SotU delay, Syria, that, to me, seem like moves in a negotiation about when and how Joe goes and Kamala takes the whip in hand.
I immediately thought of Seth Rich’s family. Then, being older than some hereabouts, I thought me of the Kopechne family, of and from whom exactly and precisely nothing has been heard…ever.
I have been at the beside for two deaths. Friends, I’m in my seventies, have died. Never heard anybody say the doctors didn’t tell them what it was that caused the death.
Maybe Sicknick’s mom heard something like “We don’t know for sure now but….” and what she’s heard since hasn’t been quoted. Maybe it has been, but the first is what’s out there.
Richard Aubrey; Cicero:
I think that the family has said they were told by doctors that it was a stroke that caused his death. I also think the family means that the government hasn’t told them what they think caused his death. No one has mentioned whether there was an autopsy or not. At least, I have discovered no such mention – which doesn’t mean the family hasn’t made a statement somewhere about it.
neo:
An autopsy by law follows a suspected unnatural or criminal death, e.g. assault with a deadly weapon, as evidence in court in event of civil or criminal proceedings.
In many jurisdictions, decision as to whether to autopsy or not is left up to the medical examiner or coroner, who can be elected into that office with no more qualification than an MD degree. “He got hit and crushed by a twelve-wheeler in front of witnesses with videos”, so an autopsy may be declined.
In case of a “natural” death, autopsy is rarely sought by the attending MDs, and is even more rarely consented to, or sought by the survivors, who will have to sustain the autopsy’s cost . It takes many pathologist hours to complete an autopsy, so that is not inexpensive. An autopsy is not just a gross visual exam, but the taking of tissues from all organs and all visualized abnormalities, from which to make up to several hundred sIides for microscopic exam of each.
I have not priced one lately but expect it will not be a trivial cost. Pathologists are reluctant to do them because each takes so much time, and they have so much other stuff to do.
Cicero:
Actually, I wasn’t thinking that an autopsy would necessarily be requested either by the doctors or the family (although the family might have done so). I was thinking that governmental authorities would usually be the ones to be ordering it under circumstances such as this. Also, wasn’t it mentioned in one of the articles that someone reported that the medical examiner had not noted any blunt force injuries? Doesn’t that indicate some sort of official report and perhaps an autopsy?
Neo: as to “no blunt force injuries” by a “medical examiner”, you may be right. But was that a government official or just a medical doc who examined? One usually assumes that was a real title, not a mere descriptor– which would be the 2nd case.
I do not believe local government authorities can order an autopsy in the event of a naturally caused death. Certainly the Federales have no such power under the Constitution (which has become a piece of toilet paper under the Dems).
Where is Dr. Mallard when we need him??