One of the most challenging assignments I have undertaken was analysis on the life and death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.
It was challenging first because, as a former law enforcement officer myself, assaults on police officers are personal — membership in the Blue fraternity does not expire. Brian Sicknick was an American Patriot and an exemplary LEO.
It was challenging because Brian died a day after the disgraceful Capitol riot, or as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would have called it in any other venue, a “peaceful protest.” I was, and remain, very angry about images of confrontations that day between Capitol Police and self-centered anarchists — a minute fringe element of self-proclaimed Donald Trump supporters whom neither Trump nor any genuine conservative would claim as fellow Patriots.
It was challenging because I had a strong instinct that Brian Sicknick’s death was being used as cheap political fodder by Pelosi and Schumer. As I wrote, “Democrats have a long and sordid history of using the caskets of victims as staging platforms for their political agenda. … But would they be so brazen as to use the remains of a Capitol Police officer, who was committed to their protection, as a political prop for a second Trump impeachment charade?”
Last June, after Pelosi and Schumer kneeled for George Floyd in the Capitol Rotunda, using his death as a prop in order to ignite their constituents’ “summer of rage,” we started posting tributes honoring police officers killed in the line of duty (now called End of Watch), and asking Pelosi and Schumer why they refuse to take a knee for those officers.
Apparently, with Officer Sicknick’s death, Democrats finally found a police officer they could “honor” as a political prop in that same Capitol Rotunda.