WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- In a footage got by Storyful, a rioter throws a fire extinguisher at the Capitol police as it plunked in an officer’s head.
- It was not clear whether the officer who got hit was Brian Sicknick, the police who died due to the violence.
- Around 90 people were arrested on Monday morning in connection with Wednesday’s siege.
A man throwing a fire extinguisher into the Capitol police, hitting the head of one officer, was caught by a video obtained by Storyful during Wednesday’s Capitol riot.
The clip showed hundreds of pro-Trump protesters were squabbling with Capitol police as they force their way past a barricade located at the west side of the legislative house around 2:30 in the afternoon.
At the beginning of the footage, one man is heard shouting, “They broke through, it’s on!”
In a matter of seconds, one rioter carrying the fire extinguisher threw it at the group of officers, striking the helmet of one officer.
In the video, the assaulter appeared to just walk away after tossing the heavy metal object. At least one cop looked back from the direction where the extinguisher was thrown.
It was unclear whether the cop who got hit was officer Brian Sicknick, the Capitol police who passed away as a result of the siege.
According to two law enforcement who spoke with the Associated Press, Sicknick, 42, died at a hospital after suffering a head injury from getting hit by a fire extinguisher by a rioter.
The clip also showed rioters, with some carrying confederate and ‘Trump’ flags, marching towards the building as they dominated the Capitol police.
Aside from Sicknick, four people also died in the Capitol chaos on Wednesday, which includes a woman who got shot by Capitol police.
As of early Monday, at least 90 arrests were made against violators in the aftermath of the Capitol riot. Cases filed range from curfew violations to felony assaults on law enforcement officers and death threats made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Sicknick’s case is currently being investigated.
Source: New York Post
How can you be sure that person was a Trump supporter? I actually saw someone dressed in black with a black backpack on pushing someone over the wall Are we all looking at the same video. Thus goes both ways but the people who planned this will never see the other side. They know the truth but will continue to point the bksne
Marsha, there were some far left anarchists who were Trump supporters. There was actually a group called “Lightworkers for Trump” and ecoterrorists who were Qanoners. who were all about overturning the government. They were impossible to talk with because there beliefs were so fantastical that they were getting their information from folks who were channeling spiritual beings. But please don’t confuse them with Dems and RHINOs. Some of these crazies were avid Bernie supporters and folks who had been part of the revolutionary parties of the 70s set on overturning the government of the US. Some were my friends in the 60s and 70s but they became more like early preppers.
Will never point the blame. Sorry
There was a BLM supporter there, John Sullivan, he has yet to be arrested even though there are pictures of him and they know his name so you can’t tell me it was all Trump Supporters. There were Antifa there also. There were also plants. Wake up, there may have been a few Trump supporters doing wrong also but to blame it all on them is wrong.
How does a man who is supposed to be the leader of one of the biggest country s in the world get to cause such a large riot with people getting killed and injuries ,the man and I use the term loosely ? It seems to me the man should be put away from the people for the rest of his life .he is making your country a laughing stock of the rest of the world, we may have terrorism in our country the Queen does not go into town and stir up the population so we go and kill people He will go down in history as the biggest liar con man ,it beats me how he has not been shot ,when you have a president like Kennedy shot by some idiot ,he has dragged your voting system in to past ,He is a danger to your country and the rest of the world,are you all sheep to be lead by the nose and do and believe what ever he says. God help you because TRUMP won’t