New video helping investigators in search of suspected US Capitol policeman death

New video evidence from the United States Capitol on January 6 helped the work of the FBI and prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, in what the officer says investigators continue to see as a complicated and difficult case.

In the police audio played at the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate on Wednesday, police officers could be heard shouting during the attack that some members of the violent Capitol mob were spraying them with bear spray. And Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah told reporters on Wednesday that Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman had indicated to him that “he had to breathe a lot of bear spray and tear gas and was nauseated” while serving in January 6. spoken during a break in the trial.

Investigators struggled for weeks to build a federal murder case for Sicknick’s death while examining videos and photographs to try to determine when he suffered his fatal injuries. The investigators determined that the initial reports suggesting that Sicknick was hit by a fire extinguisher are not true, CNN previously reported.

More than 100 other police officers were injured in the confusion last month, including at least 15 police officers who had to be hospitalized, according to court documents.

Several people were charged with assaulting police officers in the following weeks, but none so far in relation to Sicknick.

Prosecutors dedicated a team within the US Attorney’s Office in DC to investigate the policeman’s death and other attacks on him.

Sicknick’s death is being investigated by the homicide section of the DC Metropolitan Police Department, the US Capitol Police and federal officials.

Metropolitan Police Department public information officer Sean Hickman told CNN on Wednesday that the case remains under active investigation and there is no more information available to provide at the moment.

Eva Malecki, a spokesman for the United States Capitol Police, said the Sicknick family respectfully declined to comment.

Images presented during Wednesday’s impeachment process highlighted the role that police officers played during the January 6 riot in an attempt to protect lawmakers from the rebels.

The videos included images of police officers being beaten by rioters, as well as images showing how close the crowd inside the Capitol came to reaching lawmakers. House managers showed security footage of senators fleeing their chamber, with Capitol police among them and protesters just steps away.

Impeachment managers Del. Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands and Rep. Eric Swalwell of California methodically examined how protesters stormed the Capitol and took over the building, attacking police for several hours, even after lawmakers were taken to safety.

Swalwell concluded by showing images of police officers being violently attacked by protesters, including a policeman shouting for help as he was pressed against a Capitol door. The footage included a Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police officer who was violently attacked with weapons and was given a stun gun by the rioters while guarding the front of the Capitol.

This story has been updated with additional information.