National Post

FBI Is questionin­g dozens In death of police officer

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The FBI is questionin­g dozens of people in connection to the killing of Brian Sicknick, a police officer who died a day after physically engaging with a mob of supporters of President donald Trump who stormed the u.s. Capitol last week, the New york Times reported on Friday. The FBI detailed its investigat­ion in a memo sent to the private sector and others on Friday, the newspaper reported. As rioters overpowere­d Capitol police, Sicknick was pepper-sprayed and hit in the head, his father told reuters last week. Sicknick’s death is being investigat­ed as a homicide by the Washington Metropolit­an Police. The FBI is assisting. The officer was the fifth person to die after Trump supporters rioted at the u.s. Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress certified the presidenti­al election results.

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