Family of Capitol cop Brian Sicknick issue blistering statement after release of new Jan. 6 footage 

The family of police officer Brian Sicknick, the Capitol police officer who died the day after the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach, criticized Fox News and Tucker Carlson as “unscrupulous and absolutely sleazy” while the latter continue reviewing the footage of the incident.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy turned over 40,000 hours of footage from Jan. 6 to Carlson, who reviewed it and broadcast his findings to his audience of millions.

He has repeatedly claimed that President Joe Biden and his administration are “lying” to the American people about what happened that day.

On Monday night, Carlson showed his viewers footage showing a much calmer version of the development on January 6, saying: “The footage does not show an insurrection or riot in progress.”

‘The video record does not support the claim that January 6 was an insurrection. In fact, it demolishes that claim. And that’s exactly why the Democratic Party and their allies in the media kept him from seeing it.

In response, Sicknick’s family issued a condemning statement making it clear that they are “outraged by the ongoing attack on our family by the unscrupulous and utterly seedy so-called ‘news’ network Fox News, which he will do the bidding of Trump or any of his sycophantic supporters, no matter what damage is done to the families of the fallen.

It was originally suggested that Sicknick’s death occurred as a result of being attacked with a fire extinguisher and pepper spray by rioters.

But a medical examiner later ruled that he had died of natural causes. And Carlson shared footage of Sicknick walking through the Capitol after the attack.

He appeared to be in good health, which the Fox News host said threw cold water on the liberal media’s insistence that protesters on Capitol Hill had Sicknick’s blood on their hands.

In April 2021, the DC Medical Examiner ruled that Sicknick, who was injured while confronting rioters, suffered a stroke and died of natural causes.

“To this day, media reports describe Sicknick as someone who was, in quotes, ‘killed’ on January 6,” Carlson said Monday night.

“The video we reviewed proves it to be a lie.”

Carlson said the officer was “healthy and vigorous” and noted that he was wearing a helmet.

“So it’s hard to imagine that he was killed from a head injury,” he said.

“Obviously, what happened to Brian Sicknick was not the result of the violence he suffered outside the Capitol.

“This tape overturns the most powerful and politically useful lie Democrats have ever told us about January 6.”

In response, the family wrote: “Carlson’s ‘truth’ is choosing images that support his delusional views that the January 6 insurrection was peaceful and that Ashley Babbit was some kind of martyr.”

“By turning a criminal into a martyr, you are also minimizing the horrible situation facing the USCP (United States Capitol Police) and the DC Metro Police, who were incredibly outnumbered and literally fought for their own lives.” , the statement continued.

Ashley Babbit was a 36-year-old pro-Trump Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by a police officer on January 6 inside the Capitol Hill complex. An internal Capitol Police investigation ultimately found the shooting to be legal.

“The Sicknick family would love nothing more than to have Brian back with us and resume our normal lives. Fictional news outlets like Fox and his rabid supporters will not allow it.

“Every time the pain from that day seems to have eased a bit, organizations like Fox open up our wounds again and we’re frankly sick of it,” the family concluded.

Former President Donald Trump previously praised President McCarthy for turning over the footage to Carlson and his producers.

‘New surveillance footage of the events of January 6 sheds a completely different light on what really happened. The Unselect Committee was a giant scam, and has now been unequivocally stamped as CRIMINAL MAKERS OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT DAY,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social.

On Monday night, Carlson released the new footage, which also showed so-called QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley apparently being escorted into the Senate by Capitol Hill police officers.

Carlson’s suggestion challenged the prevailing narrative that Chansley, jailed for four years for the incident, aggressively stormed the chamber.

He also referenced Ray Epps, who was seen among the rioters urging them to storm the Capitol but was never charged, raising suspicions that Epps was in fact an informant. Epps has denied working for the government.

On Monday, Carlson suggested that Epps was lying.

“They were neat and meek,” Carlson said of those who stormed the Capitol. ‘These were not insurgents; they were tourists.

Carlson said they “obviously revere the Capitol,” noting that they took selfies and “made orderly lines.”

‘Deadly insurrection. Everything about that sentence is a lie,’ she said.

‘Very little about January 6 was organized or violent.

“Surveillance video from inside the Capitol shows mostly peaceful chaos.”

Carlson pointed to images showing the ‘QAnon Shaman,’ a bare-chested Jacob Chansley wearing a Viking helmet, inside the Capitol.

Chansley, a 33-year-old Navy veteran from Arizona, was one of the highest-profile figures to enter the Capitol on January 6.

He has been sentenced to almost four years for ‘obstructing an official proceeding’.

In the footage, Chansley appears to be guided by an official as he tours the Capitol.

He passes a line of riot police, who make no move to stop him.

He is then escorted to several chamber entrances that appear to be locked, eventually finding an open door through which he disappears.

“Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was recorded,” Carlson said.

The tapes show that the Capitol police never arrested Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as their tour guides.