Always wait for all the facts

A viral story about the January 6 insurrection turns out to be untrue.

I really, really, really hate it when Glenn Greenwald is proven right, but I’m darned if media outlets don’t keep doing just that.

Officer Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died just after the Beer Belly Putsch on January 6, did not die from being hit with a fire extinguisher as widely reported. He wasn’t killed by a reaction to bear spray, either. He suffered two strokes and passed away from natural causes:

Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick suffered two strokes and died of natural causes a day after he confronted rioters at the Jan. 6 insurrection, the District’s chief medical examiner has ruled.

The ruling, released Monday, will make it difficult for prosecutors to pursue homicide charges in the officer’s death. Two men are accused of assaulting Sicknick by spraying a powerful chemical irritant at him during the siege, but prosecutors have not tied that exposure to Sicknick’s death.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Francisco J. Diaz, the medical examiner, …