“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?” —John Adams (1775)
I have waited five weeks to write what I instinctively suspected a day after Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died. I waited, anticipating that evidence would emerge confirming Officer Sicknick’s actual cause of death, and hoping for evidence to dissuade the inescapable conclusion that, irrespective of how he died, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), et al., used his casket as a political prop for their impeachment inquisition of former President Donald Trump.
Having started my career as a law enforcement officer, I did not want to make assertions or draw conclusions about a fellow officer’s death without evidence to back it up. For the same reason, news of his death exponentially elevated my anger at the Capitol rioters.
What follows is a painful inquiry into the death of Officer Sicknick — what we know and what we don’t know.
What we know about Brian’s life
Officer Sicknick was a 42-year-old New Jersey native, the youngest of Gladys and Charles Sicknick’s three boys. Six months after graduating high school in 1997, though he aspired to be a police officer, he joined the New Jersey Air National Guard, serving from 1997 through 2003 with the 108th Air Refueling Wing out of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. He deployed with Operation Southern Watch in 1999 and Operation Enduring Freedom in 2003. He received an honorable discharge as an E-6, a staff sergeant, and returned to New Jersey where he worked several jobs.
In 2008, he moved to Springfield, Virginia, to fulfill his goal of becoming a police officer, joining the United States Capitol Police, but remained an avid fan of the New Jersey Devils hockey team. He loved his Dachshund dogs.
On 06 January of this year, Brian responded to the Capitol riot as part of USCP’s first responder unit. He honored his oath “to support and defend” our Constitution, and he served with distinction. The evening of that disgraceful riot, he texted his brother Ken, noting, “I got pepper-sprayed twice,” adding that he was in good shape. But he collapsed later in the evening.
End of Watch for Brian was the next day, 07 January, at 2130.
It is clear to anyone with half a brain that this man is being used as a prop. It is a joke that 2 days after the so called impeachment trial was over that the Times issued a weak correction. Why is his family not screaming to high hell to stop using their son as a pawn. Who knows?? My guess is that they are being threatened.
He was sacrificed in the name of control.