FBI Director Christopher Wray refuses to confirm the cause of Officer Brian Sicknick's death to Congress

Former FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor Clint Watts was upset Tuesday that Sen. Tom Cotton was asking questions about MS-13 instead of talking about the murder of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick by insurrectionists while guarding the Capitol on January 6.

A police officer was murdered by an insurrectionist mob, guarding their Capitol, protecting the Senate and Senator Cotton is asking about MS-13

— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) March 2, 2021

Watts knows more than probably even Sicknick’s immediate family because even the New York Times issued a correction to its reporting that he was bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher, and not even the current director of the FBI would confirm the cause of Sicknick’s death to a Senate committee Tuesday.

FBI Director Wray refuses to disclose Brian Sicknick’s cause of death https://t.co/EME9SNReLU

— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) March 2, 2021

FBI Director Chris Wray said today the agency is “not at a point” where it can disclose or confirm the cause of death of Brian Sicknick, the U.S. Capitol Police Officer who died after responding to the Jan. 6 attack.https://t.co/7Dxrz0rgYC

— ABC 7 News – WJLA (@ABC7News) March 2, 2021

FBI’s Wray on the death of Officer Sicknick: "We’re not at a point where we could disclose or confirm the cause of death.” pic.twitter.com/MKCNonc8XS

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 2, 2021

FBI Dir Wray tells Senate cmte they can't disclose cause of death for USCP Sicknick

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) March 2, 2021

wait what https://t.co/qrOt3BTzKG

— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) March 2, 2021

The Daily Caller reports:

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday refused to disclose the cause of death of police officer Brian Sicknick during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, citing an ongoing investigation.

“There is an ongoing investigation into his death. I have to be careful at this stage, because it’s ongoing, not to get out in front of it,” Wray said in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when asked about Sicknick’s death.

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Wray declined to say whether the investigation is a homicide investigation.

Wray also gave vague answers when asked if investigators have determined a cause of death for Sicknick, an Afghanistan war veteran who joined the Capitol police force in 2008.