Police Injured by ‘Friendly Fire’ on January 6

 Julian Khater, 33, faces up to eight years in prison for allegedly using pepper spray against three police officers, including the late Brian Sicknick, that afternoon

• Khater and his friend, George Tanios, were arrested in March 2021 in connection with the alleged assault.
• After spending more than 18 months in a fetid D.C. jail under pretrial detention orders, Khater pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers with a dangerous weapon.

The gas cloud quickly traveled southward to where Sicknick was stationed

• Prosecutors claim Khater sprayed Sicknick at around 2:23 p.m., but the evidence, just like everything in the January 6 saga, is dubious at best.
• Sicknick is also seen on surveillance video recovering from the effects of chemical spray and rinsing his eyes with bottled water about two minutes after Khoury’s misfire.

Khater’s “attack” on law enforcement caused many officers to abandon the secure perimeter

• Testimony by a top Capitol Police official this month confirmed it was the misfire by Officer Khoury that led to the collapse of the police line, which at the time was successfully keeping the crowd away from the building

Defense Attorney Bradford Geyer: As we play this, pay attention to the smoke, whether it's just smoke or tear gas, and the reactions of the officers. Mendoza: I can’t say why that specific crowd was where they were at the time they were there. Okay?

• Even giving the government the benefit of the doubt, it’s clear the individuals responsible for discharging copious amounts of dangerous chemicals into the air on January 6 were police officers
• Potent gas that caused dozens of officers to struggle to breathe, see, or stand-some reportedly vomited-was used needlessly by law enforcement itself against a crowd obeying police commands and respecting barriers

Of course, these facts have surfaced too late to save Julian Khater, who will face the vengeful wrath of federal prosecutors and an octogenarian judge, all of whom consider January 6 an act of domestic terror.

• The New York Times will again escape accountability for publishing another flawed story about what happened to Brian Sicknick. And the false narrative about Sicknick's death will remain intact and leveraged for political purposes.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/23/police-injured-by-friendly-fire-on-january-6/