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WASHINGTON (AP) – Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died at the hands of the mob that besieged the U.S. Capitol on Jan.6, will be honored next week in the building’s rotunda, congressional leaders said on Friday .
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a joint statement saying, “The heroism of Officer Sicknick and the Capitol Police in the violent insurgency against our Capitol has helped save lives, defend the temple of our democracy and ensure we do not deviate from our duty to the Constitution. His sacrifice reminds us every day of our obligation to our country and to the people we serve.
Congress will host an arrival ceremony for Sicknick on Tuesday evening, after which an overnight viewing period will take place for members of the Capitol Police. Lawmakers will pay their respects Wednesday morning before a departure ceremony for Arlington National Cemetery, where Sicknick will be buried.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the ceremonies will only be open to guests.
Sicknick, 42, from South River, New Jersey, enlisted in the National Guard six months after graduating from high school in 1997, then deployed to Saudi Arabia and then Kyrgyzstan. He joined the United States Capitol Police in 2008.
During the siege on Capitol Hill, as rioters raged over President Donald Trump’s electoral loss stormed the building, Sicknick was shot in the head with a fire extinguisher. He died the next day.
In their joint statement, Pelosi and Schumer said: “On behalf of the House of Representatives and the Senate, we have the great privilege of paying tribute to Agent Sicknick at this ceremony of lying of honor. May this ceremony and the knowledge with which so many cry and pray for them be a comfort to the family of Constable Sicknick during this sad time.
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