Thread by @radleybalko

As I mentioned in a thread this morning, the new edition of Warrior Cop is out today. I'm really grateful to have the opportunity to update this story.

However, I do need to acknowledge an error. After turning in my manuscript last December, I asked my editor if I could add ...

... an additional section about the 1/6 violence at the Capitol. She agreed it's an important part of the story, so I turned that section in a couple weeks after the riots.

My error concerns the death of Officer Brian Sicknick. At the time, the Capitol Police, DOJ ...

... and national reporting all indicated his death was directly caused by one or more people involved in the riot. But in April, the medical examiner's report concluded that though the riots may have contributed, Sicknick died of natural causes.

When that report came out ...

... I immediately emailed my editor to request a change. But it was too late for the print edition. It should be fixed in the ebook, and it will be corrected in the next printing.

The error isn't relevant to my broader point, which is that 1/6 was precisely the sort of ...

... event for which law-and-order groups had long argued police militarization was necessary. And yet despite ample warning, the police were completely unprepared and overwhelmed, almost certainly because of the demographics and politics of the rioters.

That said ...

... I wrote that the rioters "literally killed a police officer," which we now know is flat wrong. (And yes, my use of the word "literally" was particularly unfortunate.)

It's a bummer to know you have a clear error in a big, forthcoming project, and there's really nothing ...

... you can do but acknowledge it, apologize, and fix it for future printings.

But I do want to apologize here for my mistake.