Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Was NOT Bludgeoned With A Fire Extinguisher On January 6. What Does That Tell You? FOR WEEKS, EVERYONE HAS HEARD DRAMATIC STATEMENTS about a Capitol police officer being bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by "Trump-inspired (if not explicitly directed) insurrectionists" (or "rioters", or "domestic terrorists", or whatever). The story is a complete fiction. Officer Brian Sicknick was never struck by anything on January 6th, and though he did die the next day, it was reportedly as a result of a stroke and plainly not a result of anything that had happened during the events at the Capitol. (See a snarky, hyperventilated, but nonetheless fact-filled report here, and a pretty good treatment by Tucker Carlson here.) In the face of the inconvenient facts reported above, the absurd notion has been floated that Sicknick's stroke was caused by "exposure to a chemical agent, possibly pepper spray or bear spray" (as stated on his Wikipedia page). This pretense is a effort to use Sicknick's reassurance to his brother the evening of the 6th-- in which Sicknick said that he was fine and had merely been subjected to a couple of pepper sprays during the tumult-- to preserve the false narrative that Sicknick died as a consequence of the 6 January events. Personally, I'm willing to go out on a limb and assume with confidence that neither pepper spray nor bear spray has ever been found liable for prompting a stroke... and especially not a day after exposure. The plain fact is, Brian Sicknick was in no way a fatal victim of the protest at the Capitol on January 6th. This "pepper spray" pretense simply underscores the importance of the contrary fiction to the false "deadly riots" narrative and those behind it. And the fiction that Sicknick was killed by election-fraud protestors (whatever they are called by the fake narrative managers) is HUGELY important to those flogging it through the public square. It is only on the basis of Sicknick's pretended murder that the protestors can be accused of a "deadly" riot/insurrection/whatever and subjected to all the opprobrium which has been opportunistically directed against them and their views. Four people actually died on January 6th at the Capitol. All victims were from among the protestors and you can't effectively smear anyone over harms caused only to themselves. It has been solely on the basis of Brian Sicknick's alleged death at the hands of the protestors that the violent/intolerable/must-be-rightly-suppressed agenda-item chorus has been made possible. So, the first benefit of the truth coming out about Sicknick's death is that every single one of the narrative threads of the Democrats and their allies mining the "deadly" theme can be denounced, hooted-down and snipped. Continued (and with the links intact): https://losthorizons.com/N/134.htm#1