The Strange Death Of Brian Sicknick

On 7/27/2021, four D.C. Police officers — Daniel Hodges, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn, and Aquilino Gonell — all testified in front of the House Select Committee on the Storming of the Capitol that took place on 1/6/2021. It took six — almost seven — months for the first hearing of this committee to occur, primarily because of Republican opposition to the existence of a commission in the first place. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy threatened to strip any Republican who joins the committee of their committee assignments. When McCarthy actually nominated Republicans to join the committee, it was people who had downplayed the events that the committee existed to investigate in the first place, such as Jim Jordan or Jim Banks.

Obviously, officer testimony is far from infallible. However, Michael Fanone specifically asked the commission to release the body-camera footage, calling it important for the American public to see. Unless Fanone is engaging in the world’s largest bluff, it’s clear that, at the very least, he’s recalling the events accurately to the best of his memory.

However, if that’s still not enough for you, the committee also played video of body-camera footage from various officers all throughout the hearing. Those videos showed those who stormed our capitol for who they actually are — violent rioters with no interest in our democracy. Of course, this goes against the narrative that they were nothing more than “a bunch of middle-aged people deep in credit card debt,” in the words of Tucker Carlson.

The only time anyone on the right talked about the hearing was when they were trying to shoot the messenger. Enter this response from The Blaze personality Jon Miller:

The natural response to your country being destroyed is righteous anger. But since these people don’t actually like America, they miscalculated and thought faking tears would be a compelling response to their “democracy under attack.” And the result was massive lols.

Wait, is Miller saying the response from Democrats should be harsher? Because while the hearing was occurring, Matt Gaetz, Majorie Taylor Greene, Louie Gohmert, and Paul Gosar were all protesting outside the Department of Justice calling the treatment of those who have been imprisoned for crimes related to the storming of the capitol cruel and unusual. Is Miller suggesting that if Democrats really loved America they’d be proudly and unapologetically torturing the prisoners?

Regarding the hearing itself, there’s so much here that goes against the narrative we’ve been told. However, one thing I found interesting was the uniformity in which all four officers talked about their injuries — many of which still last over six months after they were first inflicted. Of course, these four officers were far from the only ones to be injured, with it being estimated that around one-hundred-forty police officers were in some way harmed during the storming of the capitol. However, all four of these officers said they thought it wasn’t going to stop with injuries, all four of them were worried they were going to die that day.

As it happens, one police officer who was at the Storming of the Capitol did die the following day, officer Brian Sicknick. Of course, the story we’ve been told is that Sicknick died of natural causes on 1/7/2021 and the fact he was at the capitol as it was being stormed is nothing more than a coincidence. As The Washington Post reported on 4/19/2021:

In an interview with The Washington Post, Francisco J. Diaz, the medical examiner, said the autopsy found no evidence the 42-year-old officer suffered an allergic reaction to chemical irritants, which Diaz said would have caused Sicknick’s throat to quickly seize. Diaz also said there was no evidence of internal or external injuries.

It should be noted that no full autopsy into Brian Sicknick’s death has ever been released to the public, so all the information we have about Sicknick’s death comes from second-hand sources. However, looking through even the limited video of the events of 1/6/2021 we saw at the hearing, many aspects of the story that are now “discredited” seem to show up.

Take, for example, the claim that Sicknick was killed because of a chemical irritant. We know Aquilino Gonell had so many chemicals on him after the storming of the capitol that he could not even hug his wife without fear of harming her. Various officers also pointed out that bear spray and pepper spray were used by the rioters — which we also have video evidence of.

To put it simply, what seems more likely: That a police officer died as the result of an event he was at the previous day which injured over one-hundred of his fellow officers, or that he died coincidentally of a blood-clout? Mind you, if the second one is true, we could figure that out just by releasing the autopsy publically — which has not happened yet. Instead, all we have is the words of the same D.C. officials who were interested in quickly disproving the death of Brian Sicknick in order to downplay the events of 1/6/2021.

This narrative is falling apart, and I have no doubt in my mind that there’s more going on regarding the death of Brian Sicknick than we currently know.

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