Posted on 01/28/2021 11:23:41 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A second police officer who defended the Capitol during the siege on Jan. 6 has died by suicide, the acting chief of the Metropolitan Police Department told Congress this week.
Chief Robert J. Contee III told a House committee that Officer Jeffrey Smith, a 12-year veteran of his department, had killed himself on Jan. 15 and that Officer Howard Liebengood, a 15-year veteran of the Capitol Police, had also died by suicide days after the attack.
The Police Department declined to give a cause for Officer Smith’s death or say whether it was connected to the riot. His family could not immediately be reached.
Five people died during the attack, including one Capitol Police officer and a woman who was fatally shot by another officer; some died from medical emergencies. Serious trauma was also reported, including brain injuries and smashed spinal disks. The Capitol Police union said that nearly 140 of its officers were injured, and that one officer would most likely lose an eye.
Chief Contee said in his testimony that 65 of his officers were injured in what he called a “battle.” He added that “many more sustained injuries from the assault — scratches, bruises, eyes burning from bear mace — that they did not even bother to report.”
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Committing suicide over a minor skirmish?
What say you Nancy?
I believe that.
When I was in law school, I interned with the ABA. I had to catalogue police suicides.
The pictures were horrifying.
Probably the most stressful job in the world.
Check the recent activities of the Clinton Crime Family.
i dont believe they suicided
i believe they were seth riched
Deaths in the LOD almost doubled last year. Not a peep from the media and then-candidate Biden even said that antifa doesn’t exist. The deaths associated with this riot have the media’;s attention but to what end? To condemn political violence or to condemn those who are right of center?
I’m not sure they considered it minor.
Their adrenaline was running high and they had little time to think.
By three gunshot sounds to the back of the head?
Yes, Nancy. Put down the ice cream and have a care for someone else in the world.
Perhaps they knew Nancy and Mitch.
I admit distasteful speculation on my part.
I didn’t know that they hired mentally ill people to be police officers. If they truly committed suicide over this, and for no other reason, then they were definitely mentally ill.
For all we know it could have been over a breakup with his wife, gambling debt, or despair over a cancer diagnosis. There is no evidence the suicide had anything to do with Jan 6.
What is clear is that they’re really trying to inflate for political purposes the seriousness of the events of Jan 6 when they attempt to include common health emergencies seen in any large crowd, minor skin abrasions, eye irritation from pepper spray, and things like the sniffles as evidence of a deadly “battle.”
Mmkay...
Not all the provacatuers were ANTIFA. Some were police infiltrators apparently. There was some dirty business going on. But just being tasked to defend the commies from the Americans must be very depressing.
Deeper issues at work here.
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Here is my evidence that suggests that one of the suicide officers was the shooter of Ashli Babbitt.
-PJ
In my opinion, this second “suicide” is a message to the other witnesses.
Arkancide
So did Vince Foster.
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