Attorney General Merrick Garland has increased the number of officers who died as a result of protests on Jan. 6, 2021 from one to five.
Officer Brian Sicknick died the following day of a stroke, but four others who were present during the disruption of the proceedings of Congress later killed themselves, and Garland is labeling those deaths “line of duty” deaths.
“On this day, four years ago, police officers were brutally assaulted while bravely defending the United States Capitol. They were punched, tackled, tased, and attacked with chemical agents that burned their eyes and skin. Today, I am thinking of the officers who still bear the scars of that day as well as the loved ones of the five officers who lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021,” Garland said.
“January 6 was a violent attack on the law enforcement officers defending the Capitol, and it was an unprecedented attack on a cornerstone of our system of government — the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next,” Garland said in a statement on Monday, Jan. 6, 2024, on his last Jan. 6 as attorney general.
“Over the past four years, our prosecutors, FBI agents, investigators, and analysts have conducted one of the most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in the Justice Department’s history,” he said.
“They have analyzed massive amounts of physical and digital data, identified and arrested hundreds of people who took part in unlawful conduct that day, and initiated prosecutions and secured convictions across a wide range of criminal conduct. We have now charged more than 1,500 individuals for crimes that occurred on January 6, as well as in the days and weeks leading up to the attack,” Garland said.
Garland placed no blame on Speaker Nancy Pelosi or others in for refusing to secure the Capitol that day, as was her responsibility.
Some of those who were charged by the Department of Justice were allowed into the Capitol that day by Capitol Police, and others followed them, as Capitol Police opened up the doors to allow protesters to enter. Extensive video evidence supports this statement.
Watch as Pelosi and her staff prepare her official statement.
Watch tapes that Pelosi kept secret until subpoenaed by the second House committee.
The official narrative has been disputed for years by critics and again by the recently released report by the House Subcommittee on Oversight, which pointed out the many contradictions and failures of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi-appointed investigation, which was deeply politicized and focused on President Donald Trump. Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson led that earlier committee and published their own Jan. 6 Committee report.
Loudermilk’s committee contradicts much of that report, saying, “there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6; but it was a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at several levels and numerous entities. Even amid multiple failures, there were two common elements that significantly contributed to the security issues: an excessive amount of political influence on critical decisions, and a greater concern over the optics than for protecting life and property.”
In Washington, optics are everything.
“The American people deserve a government they can trust and be proud of. Unfortunately, the failures, coverups and false accusations in the aftermath of January 6 have only increased the people’s distrust of Washington D.C.,” the Loudermilk report said.
In Washington, coverups are daily occurrences.
“Americans expect and deserve a government that is small in size, limited in scope, and fully accountable to the people, as our Founders intended. The actions of some elected officials and certain government bureaucrats in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, are evidence of how we have ventured far away from those basic principles of our constitutional republic. Transparency, accountability, and equal application of the law are the only solutions to return our nation to one
that is free, safe and full of opportunity. I sincerely pray that this report is just the beginning of an era of restoring our federal government to the basic principles of transparency and accountability,” he wrote in the cover letter to the report.
Among the Loudermilk subcommittee report findings:
FINDING 1: President Trump did not attack his Secret Service detail at any time on January 6.
FINDING 2: There was no pre-planned off-the-record move to the Capitol in the days leading up to January 6.
FINDING 3: There is no evidence that President Trump agreed with rioters chanting “hang Mike Pence.”
FINDING 4: Cassidy Hutchinson, the Cheney committee’s star witness, falsely claimed to have drafted a handwritten note for President Trump on January 6.
FINDING 5: President Trump did not have intelligence indicating violence on the morning of January 6.
FINDING 6: Cassidy Hutchinson lied about the classification status of documents to disparage Mark Meadows.
FINDING 7: Representative Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson attempted to disbar Stefan Passantino.
FINDING 8: Cassidy Hutchinson misrepresented President Trump’s actions at Lafayette Square Park in the summer of 2020.
“The events of January 6, 2021, were preventable. The politicization of Capitol security directly contributed to the many structural and procedural failures witnessed that day,” the report said.
Murkowski used her official accounts to spread this lie as well.
cant wait to put her out to pasture.
Sure. The only way she is leaving office will be on her own accord…remember the write-in campaign and now RCV. Heck, she most likely will be in a wheelchair and pass in the seat just like old Don Young.
Dont compare her to Don Young.
She was mentored by Diane Feinstein and will more likely be pushed around in a wheelchair with cobwebs in the spokes as she is wheeled into the chambers to vote against Alaska.
Odd they can’t state the only one who really
died on Jan. 6 was unarmed Ashley Babbitt ?
A true patriot, just trying to break through a door into a secure location and not following police instructions. I suppose if she was black y’all would have hailed the cop as a hero.
But go on and tell me how much you Back the Blue.
Rachel Maddow, that you?
I notice it is only you and your fellow leftists that bring up race on MRAK.
But, you are convinced everyone here is a racist.
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Not seeing any supporting evidence for your position.
true
Roseanne Boyland was literally beaten to death by a capital police officer; video evidence clearly proves that.
News for ya, Mr. Garland. Living in and of itself is inherently unhealthy and at some point, it’s fatal.
Seriously, law enforcement is an inherently unhealthy profession. You work odd hours, long hours, your sleep schedule is fouled up time and again, you deal with others’ failures and malfeasance as a full-time job, your job is about constantly making life-changing critical decisions on-the-spot and when it’s all said and done, only other LE have any clue what you go through. It’s uncommon for the public to forgive any imperfections.
Just how it is.
At one time, though things have improved slightly, the average life expectancy for LE after retirement was less than three years. Most cops know that and it’s a big reason why many defer retirement.
Long story less long, on Jan. 6, 2021 no Capitol Police (aka, Federal mallcops) LE received wounds or injuries directly attributable to an untimely death. Zero. That one fella stroked out the next day is attributable to poor lifestyle choices. End.
No, I’m not a “cop-hater” or a defund the blue guy…I’m a now retired LE who completed an honorable career serving the public.
Just the facts, when you become LE, and if you’re good at it, it’s a “rest of your life even in retirement” job, knew that going in, just like most of the rest of LE.
Thanks for your input as well as your contribution to public safety.
My thoughts on officers that were involved in suicide afterword had more to do with feelings of guilt for improper actions related to lack of strong committed leadership to take corrective actions supporting officers and not be left out in the middle of chaos without necessary support or direction.
The capitol Police force had a weak and feckless leader which was a contributing factor in their inability to control the situation.
It’s difficult if not impossible to pinpoint why anyone commits suicide. Anyone of any profession.
However, yes, LE also has a much higher rate of suicide, alcoholism, and divorce.
When I watched the January 6th coverage I was amazed at how unprofessionally the US Capitol Police performed. The only way any agency can get to that point is a failure in leadership.
Executive Summary: Garland’s report validates Loudermilk’s report..Garland is a political hack for the left and the left never learned a thing from their gross mismanagement of this event. Faith in the federal justice system is further eroded. End of story but expect future repeats of same…
Clearly(!!!), the Federal Guv’ment has a trust and integrity issue, whereby a large majority of Americans currently question their actions and proclamations, do not trust anything spoken from their mouths, and fear their overreach of authority. The abyss they continue down at an exponential speed will take a monumental effort to slow and turnaround the sentiment.
BS.
I hope Trump can find a way to legally go after this clown.
Yes masked I also say BS to the governments claim.
Another lie from our government.
Roseanne Boyland and Ashley Babbitt were murdered that day. No officers lost their lives that day. The lies by this government are astounding.
Make no mistake , these propagandist Democrats will NEVER stop lying and twisting the truth to suit and match their smears. I hope Kash Patel gets confirmed and puts a stopper into this genie bottle.
Questions we all should be asking?
1. What are the names of these fallen officers?
2. How and when did they die? I believe Tucker Carlson reported there were 4 suicides and the (natural) stroke of Sitnick but please fact check that since you’re doing such great research on this. On that topic, were the suicides investigated?
3. While we’re mourning our fallen officers, did we ever find out how many people were killed during the BLM peaceful protests? Or how many of those “protesters” went to jail?
Garland is as deranged as his dementia ridden leader
Did he also commemorate Michael Stenger?
Three years ago, one of the first whistleblowers to expose cracks in the January 6th narrative died under suspicious circumstances. His name was Michael Stenger, the Senate Sergeant at Arms. While under oath, Stenger made a chilling statement about January 6: “Investigations should be considered as to funding and travel of what appears to be professional agitators.”
On June 27th, 2022—just one day before he was set to testify before a House Select Committee and present new evidence of a J6 setup—Stenger was found dead. The cause of death? Never revealed.
On this anniversary of January 6, it’s only fitting that we take a moment to remember Mr. Stenger and the setup he helped to expose.
‘https://revolver.news/2025/01/dead-men-dont-talk-remembering-former-sergeant-at-arms-and-j6-whistleblower-michael-stenger/
Garland is a walking-talking lie machine. I hope he is indicted and sentenced for treason.
J6 is just like COVID for Democrats and their love of it will never end. They could spin all kinds of lies and half truths while their mainstream media propagated it. Sadly, there’s still many who believe their nonsense.
The creepy lizard Garland is of course doing anything he can to reenforce the outright LIE that officers died on Jan. 6th. He should start thinking hard about karma.
So…
It took four years for this information to get out. Four years. Forty-eight months.
The select committee investigating the J6 event did not have it, nor did Garland provide this information. But, four years happened since these officers suffered whatever ailment which led to their deaths.
Still, silence from the Attorney General, and from his staff.
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Did this information suddenly appear? Was someone sitting on it for four years?
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Can anyone make this make sense?
Four suicides. Those aren’t line of duty deaths. People commit suicide for a variety of reasons including guilt. Who can say why these unfortunates took their own lives but we can be confident that it wasn’t because they felt proud of their role on January 6th.
What a lying piece of …
MAGA has blood on their hands. And no matter how hard they try, it won’t wash off. Ever.
Live with it, folks. Sweet dreams…
The only death at the capitol on that day was when a DC cop shot an unarmed female veteran in cold blood from a distance and got away with it. No other individual was harmed by any citizen that was in the capital on that day. The over reach by government after the fact to prosecute US citizens for simply being in DC on that day has been a huge scam that the house leadership and DOJ have colluded on for the past 4 years. Innocent Alaskans even had their lives turned upside down by the DOJ for NO reason. The fact that people are still believing that anything happened in DC January 6th that was not coordinated by house leadership and the DOJ are ignoring all the facts that exist.
Awful that those officers were set up on j6 by the same people who were in charge of the pipe bomb and gallows hoax. Thousands of peaceful protesters were illegally gassed and flash banged. 4 protesters were killed that day!
Only prosecutions were among the protesters up to this point. Many including Jake Lang who is still in prison today without a trial, have not had anything considered due process.
The blood on our hands is the the blood of tyranny. May there be much more until the Republic is cleansed. We wear it proudly. Our patience is at its limit. So bark little dog, your teeth are made of rubber, your barks are but squeaks. We find them amusing, almost cute.