murder.
https://policetribune.com/federal-investigators-struggle-to-piece-together-a-murder-case-in-death-of-uscp-officer-brian-sicknick/
And:
"One video from the scene showed a suspect hitting uniformed USCP and DC Metropolitan Police Department officers with a metal baseball bat, WBAL reported."
And why, exactly, wasn't THAT piece of **** shot dead by law enforcement?
Read that quote from the article again...some scumbag was hitting officers with a metal baseball bat which could easily be viewed as deadly force and not one of the officers shot his ass.