House Democrat Spreads Blatant Lie That Jan 6 Crowd ‘Brutally Beat And Killed’ Police Officers

U.S. Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) told a dangerous lie to his 148,000 X followers on Monday when he falsely claimed that protesters on January 6 “brutally beat and killed” police officers.

Crow was speaking in reference to a moment from former President Donald Trump’s rally in Dayton, Ohio this past weekend. The former president played a clip of a group of January 6 political prisoners singing the national anthem as he saluted the crowd and urged rally goers to support those being targeted by the Biden regime.

In a bizarre and outright false post, the Biden Campaign’s official X account claimed that Trump played an “alternate national anthem” sung by “violent January 6 insurrectionists.”

Crow decided to double down on the misinformation in a post of his own, stating that “January 6 rioters are not hostages – they’re insurrectionists who brutally beat and killed police officers.”

This is a blatant lie, as the only people who died on January 6 were Trump supporters. The media had initially reported that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was “beaten to death with a fire extinguisher,” though this was proven false after an autopsy determined that he died of natural causes. Still, the lie persists to this day, as elected Democrats have continued to falsely claim that police officers were killed by the crowd.

President Biden has repeated the lie on numerous occasions, the most recent coming during a dark, gloomy speech this past January. “Three years ago tomorrow, we saw with our own eyes the violent mob storm the United States Capitol. It was almost in disbelief as you first turned on the television. For the first time in our history, insurrections had come to stop the peaceful transfer of power in America,” Biden said, omitting the fact that the U.S. Capitol has been bombed by far-left extremists multiple times.

“Over 140 police officers were injured. Jill and I attended the funeral of police officers who died as a result of the events of that day because Donald Trump’s lies,” the president went on to say. “They died because these lies brought a mob to Washington.”

On the one-year anniversary of the protests and two-hour riot, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) managed to include Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans, who was killed by a Nation of Islam member in the “January 6 death toll.” Biden also blamed the death of Evans on January 6 protesters last year.

“While they were still cordoning off the Capital because threats by these sick insurrectionists continued to be propagated on the internet — again, all America saw what happened when Officer Evans was killed defending a checkpoint you had to go through to get up to the Capitol because of these godawful sick threats that continue to move forward,” Biden said. “And the whole world saw it. It’s just hard to believe, it’s hard to believe it could happen here in America.”

A number of Democrat House members, Senators, and pundits have also advanced the lie. The list includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Attorney General Merrick Garland, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Joe Scarborough, to name just a few.