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Fact: President Trump discouraged violence at the Capitol protests.

Fact: The only person to die from homicide at the January 6 riots was Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a still-unnamed Capitol Police officer.

Facts: Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes the day after the riot on Jan. 6 after he suffered two strokes. The autopsy revealed that Sicknick, 42, died from two strokes at the base of the brain stem which were caused by a blood clot, Chief Medical Examiner Francisco Diaz said. The formal finding was that the death was caused by "acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis" and that the manner of death was "natural." Initial reports from CNN, MSNBC, the AP, the NY Times and others, later ruled incorrect, said Sicknick had been beaten by a fire extinguisher. He wasn't. Later reports tied his death to being sprayed with chemical irritants like bear spray or pepper spray. But Diaz said there was no evidence that the officer had an allergic reaction to the chemicals, nor did he show any other internal or external injuries. In spite of this, President Joe Biden said yesterday that Capitol rioters "killed a police officer." That's what President Biden's been doing.