Capitol Police officer suffered two strokes after riot, died of natural causes

As a life-long liberal, I am fed-up with the NYT. Yellow cake bogus story to get us to invade Iraq. Bogus story of Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan (has been refuted by US intelligence agencies). They ran with the story that Officer Brian Sicknick died from being attacked by the January 6 mob, even when the officer&#x27;s family almost immediately disputed the NYT stories.<p>Does the NYT just not care that they keep getting called out for bogus stories? I just looked at the NYT, and I saw no retraction from their previously incorrect stories on Officer Sicknick.<p>Free advice, so obviously feel free to ignore it: Democracy Now has a liberal and honest (as far as I can tell) approach to the news. BBC News and The Guardian are good also. Don&#x27;t waste your time with NYT, MSNBC, and Fox - unless you enjoy living in a little fake bubble and like having your own biases just reflected back at you.

Obviously the mainstream media will immediately publish a wave of retractions to reflect this because they botched the reporting on this incident.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;media_criticism&#x2F;comments&#x2F;mmhz7n&#x2F;dc_medical_examiner_released_cause_of_death_for&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;media_criticism&#x2F;comments&#x2F;mmhz7n&#x2F;dc_...</a><p>For weeks they pushed the narrative that &quot;the violent riots at the Capitol resulted in the death of five people.&quot; But this is wordplay. One died from being shot. Two died from natural causes. Another died from a drug overdose. And the last died from a stroke. So four of the five deaths were caused by unrelated reasons!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;07&#x2F;capitol-riot-deaths-cause-death-released-4-5-not-sicknick&#x2F;7128040002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;07&#x2F;capi...</a>

I don&#x27;t understand.<p>What I understood is that a number of protesters came armed to the teeth, but nevertheless did not shoot a single bullet even when they were storming the house.<p>Why did they bring weapons then?

History will correct the, let&#x27;s say, heated emotions expressed online, with enough time.<p>Give it 20 years and you won&#x27;t care that there was or wasn&#x27;t an insurrection at all, but the record will correct your emotions if you keep hold of them.

Pepper spray can cause acute rise in blood pressure which can cause blood clots and stroke.

The establishment got what they wanted out of this lie. The truth will now be buried and go largely unexamined.

A pattern of misinformation: Hype the story for months only to quietly retract it after the political gain &amp; social damage takes effect. The government &amp; benefiting organizations will not give up the power granted to it by &quot;temporary&quot; or &quot;emergency&quot; measures during this period of public belief in the misinformation. There may be a &quot;fall guy&quot; if the subsequent public outrage is strong enough. Anybody identifying broader patterns &amp; illicit behavior by authorities &amp; organizations will be labeled a &quot;conspiracy theorist&quot; &amp; ridiculed by the usual suspects.<p>On sites like Hacker News, the post will be flagged due to it&#x27;s &quot;politically sensitive&quot; content &amp; not stoking &quot;intellectual curiosity&quot;, even though it is interesting &amp; useful knowledge to understand markets, government behavior, where society is going, etc.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that this pattern is being applied today...but it is a security vulnerability that could be easily exploited in our Democratic &amp; public information systems.