Quote (cambovenzi @ Apr 30 2021 03:18pm)
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1388131785867993090CNN: "The Justice Department on Tuesday abandoned the idea that pro-Trump rioters had used bear spray against Officer Brian Sicknick during the January 6 riot, a major change after implying for weeks that bear spray, not pepper spray, had been deployed."
Virtually everything the corporate media said about Officer Sicknick's death from Jan 6 until this week - almost four months: from fire extinguisher to bear spray - was completely false. It became part of the impeachment trial and the script Biden reads
Death toll from January 6 Capitol riot:
-- Pro-Trump protesters killed: 4 (two by heart attacks, one by stress-induced methamphetamine overdose, one fatally shot by an unnamed cop while unarmed).
-- People killed by pro-Trump protesters: 0.
I too get super enraged by a story that the media(and Capitol police) got wrong, because an officer died hours after being involved in an insurrection by a violent mob during the counting of electoral votes, where a bunch of cops were injured, including multiple traumatic brain injures, smashed spinal discs, and one who was reported to be at risk of losing an eye. Where it's been confirmed that cops were sprayed by some sort of pepper spray, and were perhaps assaulted by a fire extinguisher. An incident that happened because the President of the United States lied about losing an election, did everything he could to try to steal it, and spoke to the nutty crowd before they stormed the Capitol on the day when Congress was set to confirm the electoral college results.
I mean obviously the main takeaway from that event is to get angry at the media for reporting a false story relayed by the Capitol police on an officer's death. That's what the history books will talk about... not the insurrection at the Capitol or the President's words and actions which fomented it, but the New York Times getting the cause of death of an officer who died afterwards wrong.