{"id":132917,"date":"2021-02-15T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=132917"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T13:43:08","slug":"nyt-promoted-idea-that-trump-loyalists-might-have-killed-capitol-police-officer-one-month-later-they-issue-significant-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-promoted-idea-that-trump-loyalists-might-have-killed-capitol-police-officer-one-month-later-they-issue-significant-update\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Promoted Idea That Trump Loyalists Might Have Killed Capitol Police Officer. One Month Later, They Issue Significant Update."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-promoted-idea-that-trump-loyalists-might-have-killed-capitol-police-officer-one-month-later-they-issue-significant-update%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=132917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-544024026.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, The New York Times, which had <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/02\/14\/the-new-york-times-retracts-the-sicknick-story\/\">reported<\/a> on January 8, two days after the breach of the U.S. Capitol, that Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick \u201cdied on Thursday from injuries he sustained after Trump loyalists who overtook the complex struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/08\/us\/brian-sicknick-police-capitol-dies.html?\">issued a significant update<\/a> more than a month after the initial article, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>UPDATE: New information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Within the body of the original article this paragraph&nbsp;was added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Law enforcement officials initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit. Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis was preceded by a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/capitol-riot-police-officer-injuries.html\">separate&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;report<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday, which added: \u2018Investigators have found little evidence to back up the attack with the fire extinguisher as the cause of death, the official said. Instead, they increasingly suspect that a factor was Officer Sicknick being sprayed in the face by some sort of irritant, like mace or bear spray, the law enforcement official said,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/new-york-times-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-fire-extinguisher\">The Washington Examiner<\/a> noted. \u201cThat report also states this development \u2018has complicated efforts to arrest suspects in Officer Sicknick\u2019s death, as both the police and rioters used spray in the siege. It is difficult to prove who sprayed irritant on Officer Sicknick.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/did-house-impeachment-managers-rely-on-a-flimsy-new-york-times-report-on-brian-sicknicks-death\/\">Mediaite<\/a> reported on Friday that the Times\u2019 original claim had been utilized by House impeachment managers in their case against former President Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher,\u201d the House impeachment managers stated in their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/02\/02\/us\/politics\/impeachment-manager-brief.html\">pretrial memo<\/a>. The claim appears to have been based on reporting that came out in the aftermath of the attack. But other conflicting reports, including a new one from CNN regarding efforts to bring charges in his death, have challenged it. The claim from Democrats is based on a Jan. 8 story in the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On January 11, The Washington Post editorial board, referencing an article in Newsweek,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/us-capitol-police-showed-what-real-patriotism-looks-like\/2021\/01\/11\/166f6ed4-5450-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cThere is no sugarcoating the criminal brutality both confronted; Officer Sicknick was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/washington-dc-riots-capitol-police-officer-dead-who-brian-sicknick-1559948\">pummeled<\/a>&nbsp;by a rioter wielding a fire extinguisher, according to witnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far back as January 8, Pro Publica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/officer-brian-sicknick-capitol\">reported<\/a> of Sicknick\u2019s family:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Last they had heard, Sicknick was in critical condition on a ventilator, according to family members who spoke to ProPublica. While some news reports had said an unnamed officer was in critical condition after being bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher, family members did not have details of his injuries. They say Sicknick had texted them Wednesday night to say that while he had been pepper-sprayed, he was in good spirits. The text arrived hours after a mob\u2019s assault on the Capitol had left more than 50 officers injured and five people dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"7.0\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-452638_192=\"14541\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-452638_192=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-452638_192=\"1\"><em>\u201cHe texted me last night and said, \u2018I got pepper-sprayed twice,\u2019 and he was in good shape,\u201d said Ken Sicknick, his brother, as the family drove toward Washington. \u201cApparently he collapsed in the Capitol and they resuscitated him using CPR.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"7.0\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-452638_192=\"14541\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-452638_192=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-452638_192=\"1\"><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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