Two years after the storming of the US Capitol, one of those involved was sentenced to a good six years in prison for attacking a police officer who died in hospital the following day. The defendant was found guilty yesterday of assaulting police officer Brian Sicknick with a chemical substance. He had confessed to using “anti-bear spray” in the storming of the US Parliament.
Sicknick collapsed during the storming of the US Congress building on January 6, 2021 by militant supporters of President Donald Trump, who was voted out. He died in hospital a day later. According to the later published autopsy report, he died of “natural causes”. The 42-year-old was not killed, but died as a result of a double stroke, the coroner said.
A total of five people died in the riots by Trump supporters in the US capital two years ago. The mob had been incited by outgoing President Trump, who did not want to come to terms with his defeat in the November 2021 presidential election.
