First published on Wed 3 Feb 2021 09.47 EST
Joe Biden paid his respects at the US Capitol on Tuesday night to the police officer killed by the violent mob of Donald Trump supporters who staged the insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January.
The remains of Brian Sicknick, 42, are lying in honor in the Capitol’s towering central rotunda where rioters had rampaged on the day. A ceremony was held for Sicknick on Wednesday morning, with Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, honoring the officer.
“Blessed are the peacekeepers,” Schumer said.
“He was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, on a day where peace was shattered.”
Fallen Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick honored during ceremony at US Capitol
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Fallen Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick honored during ceremony at US Capitol
Members of Congress, law enforcement and others paid tribute to fallen U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Wednesday, four weeks after the deadly riot at the Capitol complex.
Officer Sicknick died last month from injuries suffered during the January 6 riot. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden traveled to the Capitol to pay tribute to Sicknick as he lay in honor Tuesday night. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband also paid their respects.
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Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.
Biden s inauguration came at a time of national tumult and uncertainty, a ceremony of resilience as the hallowed American democratic rite unfurled at a U.S. Capitol battered by an insurrectionist siege just two weeks ago. The chilly Washington morning was dotted with snow flurries, but the sun emerged just before Biden took the oath of office, the quadrennial ceremony persevering even though it was encircled by security forces evocative of a war zone and devoid of crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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