you're not gonna get the 15mins so go away...
Posted on 05/29/2021 8:38:33 PM PDT by RandFan
The mother and girlfriend of the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick said they were disappointed that Republicans decided to filibuster a bill to form a bipartisan commission looking into the Jan. 6 insurrection, with his girlfriend saying the votes against the legislation speak "volumes."
In an appearance on CNN, Gladys Sicknick, Brian Sicknick’s mother, and Sandra Garza, his girlfriend, expressed dismay that the bill was defeated, saying it would have provided more details on the Jan. 6 riot that precipitated Brian Sicknick’s death.
“A lot of them would default to the ‘Well, it’s very partisan.’ Well, that’s baloney,” said Garza. “I think they just don’t want to do the right thing.”
"I don't understand it. They are elected for us, the people, and they don't care about that," Gladys Sicknick added. "They care about money, I guess, their pocketbooks. So they'll be in front of the cameras when they feel like it. They just don't care, and it's not right."
The comments from the two women followed meetings they held with various Senate Republicans lobbying them to approve the bill. In the end, only six Republicans voted with Senate Democrats to approve the legislation, falling short of the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a key hurdle.
Republicans said the commission was unnecessary given probes that are being conducted by congressional committees and voiced concerns that the panel’s findings could hurt their midterm messaging in 2022.
“I do not believe the extraneous 'commission' that Democratic leaders want would uncover crucial new facts or promote healing. Frankly, I do not believe it is even designed to,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the floor.
“That’s why the Speaker’s first draft began with a laughably rigged and partisan starting point and why the current language would still lock in significant unfairness under the hood,” he added on Thursday in reference to Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
The bill would have created a 10-member commission with the ability to appoint members evenly split between the two parties, a model based on the panel created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Brian Sicknick was seen on video fighting with rioters on Jan. 6 and being sprayed with a chemical agent.
He died of two strokes the next day in a death a medical examiner said was due to natural causes. However, his family believes he would be alive had it not been for the insurrection.
Screw her! Sicknick was in bad health, period.
Despite what most Dems and some Republican e-types are saying, none of them really want a commission to investigate Jan. 6 because the truth would come out and the narrative would die.
There was never going to be a commission. This is all theatre. The narrative lives on.
“Sicknick’s girlfriend: GOP decision to block Jan. 6 commission ‘speaks volumes’”.
And “that” comment from her speaks volumes. She been watching too much See BS. The old fire extinguisher story I suppose.
I care about Ashli Babbit being murdered.
Barely...
What would she say about Democrats blocking audits of the 2020 vote? Same inferences?
Events on 1/6 had nothing to do with Sicknick’s death. What are these idiots trying to do? Cash in on his death?
Oddly, Tal Axelrod of The Swill failed to mention THAT EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTED IN LOCKSTEP on this.
It didn’t precipitate his death.
Biden voters
As of now this policeman’s death is considered natural causes. If a commission if it were approved would find his death was related to the protests I am sure financial compensation would be to given to the family were now it would not. Crazy.
you're not gonna get the 15mins so go away...
My husband had a massive stroke. I cannot imagine using that to batter my political opponents. Then again, I can’t imagine my political opponents being typical Americans who peacefully gather to petition the government to ensure an election is fair and transparent.
There would be no honest commission. It would be the single shot from the grassy knoll all over again.
The only murder victim was Ashli Babbitt. Was Sicknick struck by anyone? If he had been, the video would be everywhere, played on an infinity loop.
There are going to be trials, lots of them. Evidence will be entered into the record.
Let the judicial process work.
Congress’ job is to write and pass legislation, not run a witchhunt.
“Nineteen Capitol Police officers have tested positive for COVID-19 since Jan. 8”
“That marks a cumulative total of at least 78 Capitol Police employees who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Many of the rioters were not wearing masks. Several lawmakers announced that they tested positive for COVID-19 in the days following the deadly riot.”
“’Most of our officers have not been vaccinated yet,’ said Capitol Police Officer Gus Papathanasiou, the head of the department’s union”
“’A lot of them are pretty angry,’ he said.”
“Fridman and colleagues found that 1.8% of patients with COVID-19 experienced a stroke (95% CI, 0.9%-3.7%), including 1.5% who had an ischemic stroke (95% CI, 0.8%-2.8%). They also reported an in-hospital mortality rate of 34.4% (95% CI, 27.2%-42.2%). Both the rates of stroke and in-hospital mortality were ‘exceedingly high,’ according to the researchers.”
Vaccination can cause strokes (very rare), Covid can cause strokes(very common) and so can anger(significant).
Did they provide his autopsy and cause of death?
You probably would feel the same way if it were your loved one. It’s very reasonable to think that the shitshow on January 6th contributed to the stroke. I know too many who have died from strokes but they were all over 75 - not 42.
Really some people here have lost their humanity. Shame on you.
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