police officer Jeffrey Smith's suicide days after Capitol attack is declared a line-of-duty death

[IcyPeas]

First on CNN: DC police officer Jeffrey Smith’s suicide days after Capitol attack is declared a line-of-duty death. This comes after a months-long fight from his widow; the police retirement board now saying Smith died because of injuries from Jan 6. https://t.co/OfRDSanYDS

DC police officer's suicide days after Capitol attack declared line-of-duty death

The widow of Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith has won a months-long fight to have her husband's death declared in the line of duty, following his suicide days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

According to a letter obtained exclusively by CNN, the District of Columbia's Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board has found that Smith "sustained a personal injury on January 6, 2021, while performing his duties and that his injury was the sole and direct cause of his death."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/politics/smith-police-officer-line-of-duty-death-january-6/index.html

[SheltieLover]

1. Every single insurrectionist should be charged for this!

[yardwork]

2. Good. It's too bad his widow had to fight for this.

[bottomofthehill]

3. As it should be.

He took a violent blow to the head and due to Officer shortages, he was returned to duty too quickly. His loss is a real tragedy. The insurrectionists should be charged in his death. His attackers killed him, it was in slow motion but they killed him just the same.