Officer Sicknick died of natural causes

[Speedy]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pub...story.html

Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick suffered two strokes and died of natural causes a day after he confronted rioters at the Jan. 6 insurrection, the District’s chief medical examiner has ruled.

The ruling, released Monday, will make it difficult for prosecutors to pursue homicide charges in the officer’s death. Two men are accused of assaulting Sicknick by spraying a powerful chemical irritant at him during the siege, but prosecutors have not tied that exposure to Sicknick’s death.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Francisco J. Diaz, the medical examiner, said the autopsy found no evidence the 42-year-old officer suffered an allergic reaction to chemical irritants, which Diaz said would have caused Sicknick’s throat to quickly seize. Diaz also said there was no evidence of internal or external injuries.

Diaz said Sicknick suffered two strokes at the base of the brain stem caused by a clot in an artery that supplies blood to that area of the body. Diaz said he could not comment on whether Sicknick had a preexisting medical condition, citing privacy laws.

[C(-)ris]

Interesting. That a surprise.

[cbelt3]

No consideration of stress and increased BP causing the blood vessels to tear ? I can double damn guarantee that a young black man trying to flee a super fat white southern officer would be charged with murder when the officer keels over from a heart attack.

[pdq]

Forty-two year olds have strokes all the time, right? They’re basically walking time bombs, y’know?

Just a remarkable, inexplicable coincidence.

Edit:



Very remarkable coincidence.

[RAMd®d]

No consideration of stress and increased BP causing the blood vessels to tear ?

Perhaps you should lend your expertise to the M.E.'s office to get them sorted.


I can double damn guarantee that a young black man trying to flee a super fat white southern officer would be charged with murder when the officer keels over from a heart attack.

An interesting whataboutism non-sequester you played there.



Very remarkable coincidence.


I too find it difficult to believe that were this any other day of any other circumstance, he might have still died.

But it is about the evidence, no matter what I or anybody else wants to believe.

If we're going to just assume with no direct link that the Jan. 6 events caused his death, why can't it be assumed that exhaust fumes played apart in Floyd's death.

It should be about the evidence.

Very few here more than me, if any, want somebody charged with murder for the death of Sicknick.

But if there is no evidence to support the charge, we don't get to substitute opinion to assuage anger or outrage.

We just don't.

[deckeda]

Does not pass the sniff test. Which part of an increase in pulse and BP (wild guess!) would not trigger a clot to move?

He might have stroked out the next week or the next year all on his own, but so what? They’re doing the same thing to him that the defense wants to do to Floyd: blame imperfect health on imminent death.

[Acer]

If he stroked out an hour after shoveling snow, we'd have no trouble connecting the events.

[kj]

Temporal contiguity doesn't prove causation, unfortunately.

[RAMd®d]

Temporal contiguity doesn't prove causation, unfortunately.

This.

[mrbigstuff]

Having family history of stroke, I have talked to the doctors of family members who can't relate any particular thing or event, external and sometimes internal, directly back to the stroke. But perhaps he had a family history of it. My GGF died of one when he was 50 years old. My GF would have died of his but health care had improved in the intervening years.

I'm of a similar mind to Acer.