by Yaron Steinbuch at The New York Post
A veteran Chicago cop who serves as spokeswoman for the National Police Association has reportedly blasted the left for suggesting that the Capitol riot was the reason four officers committed suicide after responding to the insurrection.
Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith told the Daily Mail that “we will never know” why Kyle DeFreytag, Gunther Hashida, Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood took their own lives after the Jan. 6 riot.
The 29-year veteran told the news outlet that she and her colleagues have become disgusted as they believe that DC Democrats and the media have politicized the deaths.
“We don’t know why these officers committed suicide. Police officers see horrible things every day from the minute they get out of the police academy. We don’t know why any police officer kills themselves unless they leave a detailed accounting of why they killed themselves and most do not,” Brantner Smith told the outlet.
“To my knowledge, none of [these four] officers left any kind of detailed accounting of why. That’s why it’s important that we don’t assume, and we don’t politicize,” the spokeswoman for the lobbying group and charity continued.
‘We will never know. That’s what law enforcement around the country is finding so distasteful about this … that one riot in one area, and suddenly police suicide is a big deal,” the officer said.
“No one is talking about all the other cops who are killing themselves. The politicization of this topic is abhorrent,” she added…
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