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The US Department of Justice has designated the death of D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith - who took his own life after helping defend the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot - as having occurred in the line of duty, granting his widow access to hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal benefits.
A law amended last year makes it easier for families of officers who die by suicide to access death benefits, marking a shift in how the government treats first responders who suffer mental health crises arising from what they encounter on the job.
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Letter: It is Republicans like our own Missouri Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt that continue to assert the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen.