2021-03-15 at 8:54 PM UTC
The New York Times
2 Arrests in Assault on Police Officer Who Died After Capitol Riot
Katie Benner and Adam Goldman
The Justice Department has charged two men in the assault on Brian D. Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who died the day after he fought rioters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the case and court documents.
The F.B.I. on Sunday arrested George Pierre Tanios, 39, of West Virginia and Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania on charges of assaulting officers, including Officer Sicknick, with a chemical spray. Mr. Khater was arrested in New Jersey.
The arrests, which were reported earlier by The Washington Post, came weeks after investigators pinpointed one of the men in a video of the riot, in which he was seen attacking several officers with the spray, according to two law enforcement officials. The Justice Department has said in previous court filings that rioters were recorded on video talking about attacking officers, including Officer Sicknick.
It is not clear whether Officer Sicknick died because of his exposure to the spray. On Jan. 7, the day he died, the Capitol Police said in a statement that he “was injured while physically engaging with protesters” at the riot a day earlier and then “returned to his division office and collapsed.” He later died at a hospital.
In the hours after Officer Sicknick was rushed to the hospital, Capitol Police officials initially said that he had been struck with a fire extinguisher, but later said that his death was not caused by blunt force trauma. In the following days, investigators homed in on the potential role of an irritant as a primary factor in his death.
Officer Sicknick, 42, was an Air National Guard veteran who had served in Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan.
After the F.B.I. posted fliers with photographs of Mr. Khater and Mr. Tanios, seeking information about the Jan. 6 attack, a tipster told the F.B.I. that the two men had grown up together in New Jersey.
Another person told the F.B.I. that one of the men in the photos looked “very close” to Mr. Tanios, who had “bragged about going to the insurrection at the Capitol on Facebook.”
A tipster also identified Mr. Khater as a former colleague at a food establishment in State College, Pa.
The police also are looking for a "person of interest" going by the name of "Polecat" to interrogate him about his activities on Jan. 6, 2021. They expect an arrest soon.
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2021-03-15 at 9:04 PM UTC
I'm sorry.
Are you for fucking real?
What sort of limited mental world do you live in?
2021-03-15 at 9:15 PM UTC
You'll look good in stripes, Donny.
2021-03-15 at 9:30 PM UTC
sounds like the guys heart failed cuz he was an out of shape lazy fuck, that when it came time to do his job for the first fucking time ever he dieded.
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2021-03-15 at 10:14 PM UTC
Narc
Naturally Camouflaged
[connect my yokel-like scolytidae]
Good, always good to hear about pigs dying.
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2021-03-15 at 10:55 PM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
thanked for last line
though again, if it really was pepper spray that led to his death, every time he left the station was a deferred death sentence. he had no business being on active duty.
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2021-03-15 at 11:23 PM UTC
https://www.veteranstoday.com/Is this where OP goes for his indoctrination. LMAO "serving the clandestine community". Not sure if it's just LARPing or not.
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2021-03-15 at 11:27 PM UTC
But then again if they are high level jedis how were they arrested?
2021-03-15 at 11:43 PM UTC
More conspiracy shit from the right wing radicals of the world. Surprise surprise
2021-03-15 at 11:46 PM UTC
The article is NYT. You're just talking about jedis because you make everything about jedis.
