You Won’t Believe What The Autopsy Found About This Fallen Capitol Officer

According to an autopsy performed by the chief medical examiner, Francisco Diaz, United States Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick’s death was a result of 2 strokes and not an allergic reaction to chemical irritants he encountered during a riot on January 6.

Sicknick, 42, passed away the day after the riots from natural causes from what Diaz ruled as an “acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis.”

The report shows that Sicknick was sprayed with the chemical substance around 2:20 p.m. on the day of the Capitol attack but didn’t collapse until 10 p.m. later that night. He was declared dead around 9:30 p.m. the next day.

Last month, federal officials arrested and charged two individuals with assault for spraying Sicknick with bear spray during the attack. 32-year-old Julian Elie Khater and 39-year-old George Pierre Tanios are looking at a list of charges, including assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon as well as conspiracy to injure a police officer. However, authorities did not charge the pair with the officer’s death.

If convicted, the men could be looking at 20 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines for every assault charge.

Originally, law enforcement claimed Sicknick had been struck by a fire extinguisher, this narrative was picked up by The New York Times and is now accepted as true. The piece was later quietly updated to say Sicknick had “succumbed to his injuries” after protecting the building from protesters.

Capitol police say Sicknick “was injured while physically engaging with protesters. He returned to his division office and collapsed. He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.”

Officer Sicknick was just one of the five people who lost their lives after a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while the electoral count that would certify Joe Biden as the next President of the United States was taking place. About 140 Capitol officers were also injured during the siege.

The fallen officer was honored in the Capitol Rotunda in early February. President Biden and his wife the First Lady Jill Biden were among those who came to show their respects.