The Capitol riots were just a couple of short weeks ago and we still have little to no answers to what really happened that day. The entire situation didn’t smell right and I could say that from watching it unfold on television that fateful day. Sadly, I wasn’t there to see it firsthand, but I do know several people who attended and they were just as bewildered as me to what the media was reporting. In fact, the ones I know who were present were at the Capitol and witnessed Antifa attempting to smash the windows and were pulling them off the window.
So, to hear the media spin the narrative that it was the patriots and that there was mass chaos didn’t jive with many of the firsthand accounts I heard. However, whatever your thoughts are of what happened that day, one thing we can all agree on is that the government is going to use this to strip away more of our rights.
Now, in the midst of the swirling questions, another officer who was involved in the riots has been found dead from an apparent suicide. Seriously folks, what is going on?!
Here is more from Fox News:
A second police officer who responded to the U.S. Capitol riot has died by suicide, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Acting Chief Robert J. Contee told Congress Tuesday.
Contee, delivering testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, also described a “tepid response” from the Army, which he claimed was concerned over optics of having boots on the ground and was reluctant to send in D.C. National Guard, even as a violent mob overran the protective measures at the Capitol.
During the height of the incident on Jan. 6, approximately 850 Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) members were at the Capitol to assist U.S. Capitol Police, and by the day’s end, an additional estimate of 250 MPD members had been in the area to directly support the response and aftermath, Contee said.
He also said the department spent approximately $8.8 million during the week of the insurrection.
A total of five people lost their lives directly as a result of the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died at the hospital the next day from injuries sustained while “physically engaging” with rioters. Additionally, two police officers — one with the D.C. Metro Police, another with U.S. Capitol Police — “took their own lives in the aftermath of that battle,” Contee said.
Contee identified Jeffery Smith, an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), as the second member of law enforcement to take his own life after responding to the Capitol riot.
Smith was a 12-year veteran of the force assigned to patrol in the 2nd District, an MPD spokeswoman confirmed to Fox News.
Contee also named Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, who died by suicide on Jan. 9.
Capitol Police had not initially released a cause of death in their statement first announcing his passing, but a family attorney previously confirmed to news outlets that Liebengood took his own life and had been on duty days earlier during the riot at the Capitol. ‘
I don’t know, but this all seems just so suspicious to me and I am sure to many others as well.
In all honesty, something is just not adding up with all this and I pray that we can get to the bottom of it soon.
Please keep his family and friends in your prayers in the coming days ahead, and our nation.
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