On January 6 of this year, a riot on Capitol Hill shocked the world.
Supporters of the former president stormed Capitol Hill, and a riot ensued. After the riot was quelled, a Capitol Hill police officer at the time, Brian Snick, was declared dead. This became the culmination of the Capitol Hill riots, and the nation was in an uproar.
Speaker of the House Pelosi even immediately issued a statement of sorrow, she raged against the mob and called the police officer who died in the attack on Congress a hero! A martyr for our democracy!
Subsequently, both the White House and Capitol Hill lowered their flags to half-staff, and a solemn state funeral ceremony was held on Capitol Hill on February 2. Both the president and the first lady attended the memorial service.
But soon the matter was suddenly no longer reported by the mainstream media. Of course for many people, the police officer had died, it was already a tragedy, and the subsequent funeral was held, and indeed the attention diminished.
But in February of this year, the New York Times issued an article revising the news account of the killing of Officer Bryan, but such revisions have long been forgotten with the ouster of former President Trump.
However, Bryan’s family never gave up, and his father said the family wanted a truth.
On April 19, more than three months after Officer Bryan’s death, the chief medical examiner of the District of Columbia officially declared the 42-year-old officer Bryan’s death as a normal death.
Previous claims of having been hit by a fire hydrant have been dismissed.
According to the coroner, the cause of death was an acute brain stem and cerebellar infarction caused by an acute basilar artery thrombosis. (Also known as a stroke)
The coroner’s office said that death is not considered natural if the manner of death was hastened by injury, but apparently Officer Bryan suffered no other traumatic injuries during his lifetime.
At about 2:20 p.m. on the day of the riot, Bryan had been sprayed with a chemical outside the U.S. Capitol, but this is a commonly used chemical spray that does not cause any adverse reactions in humans, and in fact many people had been sprayed with this spray under the chaotic scenes that day.
Officer Bryan returned to his office that night and collapsed around 10 p.m. Police initially believe he was injured during contact with the protesters.
He was rushed to the hospital and put on a ventilator, but died at about 9:30 p.m. the following day.
Two men had been accused of spraying a chemical irritant on Snick during the riot.
However, coroner Francisco J. Diaz found no evidence that Bryan had any adverse reaction to the chemical irritant.
Early reports indicated that Bryan was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the chaos, but that claim has been denied in the weeks since the attack.
Brian’s brother, Ken Sicknick, told reporters that Brian texted him on the night of the riot, saying he had been “pepper-sprayed” but was “in good shape.
Ken said his brother’s condition deteriorated rapidly over the next 24 hours, before he was intubated and treated for a blood clot and stroke.
And while the nation is pointing the finger at Brian for being stoned to death or dying in a riot, Brian’s mother told reporters, “We don’t know for sure, but we think he suffered a fatal stroke, and we’ve been waiting for the truth for a long time!
The two men accused of spraying stimulants on Bryan, George Pierre Tanios and Julian Eli Hart, have now been arrested and face multiple felony charges, including assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon, but no murder charges have been filed.
Perhaps with the former president’s ouster, it no longer matters whether Bryan was killed or died of natural causes, but he still deserves admiration as the police officer who protected Capitol Hill that day, and his family has finally waited for a truth, and I hope the family is in mourning!
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