[HN Gopher] Capitol Police officer suffered two strokes after ri...
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       Capitol Police officer suffered two strokes after riot, died of
       natural causes
        
       Author : AndrewBissell
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2021-04-19 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
        
       | fireland wrote:
       | Obviously the mainstream media will immediately publish a wave of
       | retractions to reflect this because they botched the reporting on
       | this incident.
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/media_criticism/comments/mmhz7n/dc_...
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       | For weeks they pushed the narrative that "the violent riots at
       | the Capitol resulted in the death of five people." But this is
       | wordplay. One died from being shot. Two died from natural causes.
       | Another died from a drug overdose. And the last died from a
       | stroke. So four of the five deaths were caused by unrelated
       | reasons!
       | 
       | https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/07/capi...
        
         | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
         | And the one person who was shot was an unarmed protestor/rioter
         | who was shot by the an unnamed law enforcement officer.
        
       | disgrunt wrote:
       | The establishment got what they wanted out of this lie. The truth
       | will now be buried and go largely unexamined.
        
         | stereoabuse wrote:
         | Currently front page of NYTimes, CNN, WaPo, Fox, WSJ
        
       | briantakita wrote:
       | A pattern of misinformation: Hype the story for months only to
       | quietly retract it after the political gain & social damage takes
       | effect. The government & benefiting organizations will not give
       | up the power granted to it by "temporary" or "emergency" measures
       | during this period of public belief in the misinformation. There
       | may be a "fall guy" if the subsequent public outrage is strong
       | enough. Anybody identifying broader patterns & illicit behavior
       | by authorities & organizations will be labeled a "conspiracy
       | theorist" & ridiculed by the usual suspects.
       | 
       | On sites like Hacker News, the post will be flagged due to it's
       | "politically sensitive" content & not stoking "intellectual
       | curiosity", even though it is interesting & useful knowledge to
       | understand markets, government behavior, where society is going,
       | etc.
       | 
       | I'm not saying that this pattern is being applied today...but it
       | is a security vulnerability that could be easily exploited in our
       | Democratic & public information systems.
        
       | sjg007 wrote:
       | Pepper spray can cause acute rise in blood pressure which can
       | cause blood clots and stroke.
        
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