A fourth police officer who defended the US Capitol during the 6 January insurrection by extremist supporters of Donald Trump is now confirmed to have taken his own life.

Washington DC’s Metropolitan police department (MPD) confirmed late Monday that another of their officers, Kyle DeFreytag, died by suicide earlier in July, just hours after declaring that MPD officer Gunther Hashida killed himself on 29 July.

In January MPD officer Jeffrey Smith, a 12-year veteran of the force, and Capitol police officer Howard Liebengood, a 16-year veteran, both of whom also responded to the 6 January attack, died by suicide.

Anyone else think 4 veteran cops suddenly killing themselves because of this sus or i have i just been CIApilled so much that i think everything else is sus?

I looked it up, suicide rate for cops is 17 out of 100,000, and the MPD has 3,800 cops, which makes 4 deaths in a year about a factor of ten higher than average. Who knows how legit this source is (addictioncenter.com lol) but

California, Florida, New York, and Texas suffer from the highest rates of officer suicides, with each reporting at least 10 police suicides last year.

So if 10 is a high year in big districts, then 4 in 7 months in a smaller district seems at least noteworthy. They're on track to hitting the suicide rate of the worst districts at this rate.

What do you think, hexers? Weird coincidence, those cops definitely killed themselves because they had to fight other cops/against their own ideology, or those cops were killed by someone else? :eye:

The thing that gets my tin foil hat on the most is 12 and 16 year veterans. 16 years of being a cop and suppressing protests in DC and this is the one that's so bad it makes you end your whole life - not just retire or try to transfer, but literally kill yourself? After 16 fucking years of being a cop? Idk comrades, seems sus to me.