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You're just peeing in the wind. They will never admit it was a full on lie. The "party of science" is never wrong. CNN, NYT, Wapo, they're never wrong, just the anonymous source. Which are oddly believed, without question, on this board. Pure lunacy.
And yet the Capitol Police put the that statement. I assume you're referring to the Propublic article linked above?
Actually if the media would stop reporting false stories slanted against conservatives it would help much more. Until then, trust is completely lost.
Here's the closest family statement I could find in that Propublica link:
Deflection Alert!
If LEO is doing it on assumptions and speculation, yes! If it's second hand hearsay, yes! They were reporting he had wounds! Lie. They reported he was beat to death! Lie. They were reporting it was from bear mace! Lie. All they did was take an unverified, anonymous source, and run with it for months as fact.
I don't know. But there are posters here suggesting the statements by the family should have immediately cleared things up. That was not the case.
Two people in this thread claim the family made statements that contradicted the LEO statement. I'm waiting for someone to post it. I asked nicely. So far I've only seen family members echo the LEO.
I've seen those posts. They should link them. But if the family got the same misinformation, then of course they're going to feel this way. My only point is someone, LEO, news outlets, whomever, got it wrong early. And people should've waited until the investigation played out.
The media's going to report information as they receive it. If it proves wrong, they'll correct it. I asked someone in this thread when was it known Sicknick did NOT die from injuries sustained on the 6th, as was first put out by the Capitol Police? Was it just yesterday
Yes. I believe so. But from his death until yesterday it was being reported as fact. Which it shouldn't have been. They're was nobody on record, no Drs., no LEO, nobody of any true sourced and vetted individuals. Nothing. Just anonymous junk.
I don't doubt some initial reports were wrong. It was pretty chaotic. I even remember when it was being reported the rioters were Antifa. That was wrong too.
It’s important in determining the media’s credibility or something else?
According to two law enforcement officials it says...correct?
We all watched it happen in real time. Even if Sicknick had lived, it's hard to portray that day as a mostly peaceful protest.
So you think they fabricated that they had sources? With zero evidence to back that up.
Here's how the NYT reported it on Jan 8. I don't see this as "fact", only as according to two LEO's - and they were getting their info from security and cell phone videos:
Immediately? No, it was quietly done over a month later, and even then it was couched in nebulous wording - new information "questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police," https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/brian-sicknick-police-capitol-dies.html
Anonymous sourcing is real journalism. At some point that will be admitted as well. Especially if you have multiple sources inside law enforcement.
Can you please copy and paste the statement from Sicknick's family? I can only find this:
"Bloody gash to the head and put of life support" - they said with no evidence.
They said...based on the citing in the article of two law enforcement officials. You are claiming those officials don't exists.
Here's the Boston Herald reporting it as a fact he was killed by a metal pipe or fire extinguisher. Yet further down the brother says its unknown how he died
. January 8th.That's a flat out lie by the media. Sicknick didn't tell his father he was hit in the head because he wasn't hit in the head. Video evidence has disproven that. And his brother said that he was only pepper sprayed. It's a lazy media person pupating something they saw elsewhere. There's no way he got that from his father's mouth.
You don't publish key facts - especially involving someone who died in a high profile event - without corroborating it. It's journalism 101. A gash to the head is one of the most easily verifiable facts there is. That's the whole point of this thread. The grand old lady of journalism didn't even follow basic journalism standards.
Thank you. I don't believe that contradicts the statement made by the Capitol Police.
I never saw anyone claim that Sicknick told his father that he was hit in the head. Why are you twisting the facts?
If his brother was unclear about his death or injuries, how can the Capitol Police be so sure he was injured from the riot and "succumbed to his injuries". What injuries? They wouldn't have known he had injuries because the autopsy completely disproves their statement.
We're picking nits here, but is this the same brother that blamed the political climate for killing his brother? I mean, that's pretty clear he's talking about injuries suffered during the riots. Again, I don't think the family disputes what the police put out. Just different words. The brother says they don't know what caused his injuries. And I don't doubt that. There was a lot of (mis)information the day of and the day after. Everyone was trying to piece together what the hell happened.
Don't forget Twitter. Quite a few here believe everything they see on twitter. And polls..Don't forget polls. Because polls are always right...Unless of course they are conducted by a biased organization, which is determined by the poll lovers here.
Or how about just report it right the first time? Oh no, we don't agree on that.
Literally nobody believes polls are always right or to believe everything you see on twitter.
And yours seem to be a fabrication to try and paint members of this board in a negative way.
