Sicknick is thefifth private citizento lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, following fellow Capitol Police officer Jacob Chestnut and Capitol Police detective John Gibson, who were shot and killed at the Capitol in 1998, civil rights leader Rosa Parks in 2005 and the Reverend Billy Graham in...
Monday afternoon, Capitol police issued a statement regarding the arrests: The United States Capitol Police continues to mourn the loss of Officer Brian Sicknick. His bravery on January 6 will be something our police family will always remember. "The attack on the U.S. Capitol and on our p...
The committee so far has heard from police officers who were at the Capitol on January 6. In emotional testimony, those officers spoke of how afraid and frustrated they were by the failure of law enforcement leaders to foresee the potential for violence and understand the scope of planning by ...
Donald Trump has ambitious Day 1 plans for when he moves back into the White House in January. November 13 Man who smashed door moments before officer killed Capitol rioter gets 8 years in prison A man who smashed in glass door panels moments before a police officer shot and killed anoth...
6, 2021. Five people died during the riot and the immediate aftermath, including Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by police. All told,140 police officers were injured in the Capitol siege, including U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick who died later. Several ...
"I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm, as I heard chants of, 'Kill him with his own gun,'" MPD Officer Michael Fanone testified. Another cop, Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, vented frustration at the hearing at some members of Congress w...
The deadly attack, which killed five people and injured hundreds of police officers, is a "landmark stain" on American democracy, according to a CNN report published in June 2021. "American democracy had near-death experience," and the country's air of invulnerability was shattered in the Ca...
Yes, Jan. 6 Capitol assault was an “armed insurrection” If Your Time is short Police stopped only a fraction of the violent protestors Jan. 6, but we still know of guns and explosives seized in and around the Capitol. And we know rioters brought knives, brass knuckles a stu...
"UCSP did not prepare a comprehensive, Department-wide plan for demonstrations planned for January 6, 2021," wrote Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton. His review was the first federal audit of the January 6 attack. The report documented the department's failure to pass along "relevan...
The officer who was killed today is the second to die in the line of duty this year. Capitol Police officer, Brian D. Sicknick, died a day after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 “due to injuries sustained while on-duty,” the Capitol Police said in a statement. Two officers died by ...