Choosing their scars: Lawmakers grapple with what to preserve from insurrection By Chris Cioffi, CQ-Roll Call
Published: February 7, 2021, 1:02pm
Share: Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, pays respect to the late U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick as an urn with his cremated remains lies in honor on a black-draped table at the center of the Capitol Rotunda, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Washington. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)
WASHINGTON Scars of past violence at the Capitol aren’t always easy to spot. You would have to crane your neck to see a bullet hole left in the ceiling after a 1954 shooting, or pockmarks in the stone caused by the fire of 1814.
WASHINGTON Slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lay in honor Wednesday in the building he died defending as colleagues and the lawmakers he protected paid their respects.
Sicknick died after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6 against the mob that stormed the building and interrupted the electoral count after then-President Donald Trump urged supporters on the National Mall to fight like hell to overturn his defeat. The U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement that Sicknick, who died the next day, was injured while physically engaging with protesters, though a final cause of death has not yet been determined.
Slain Capitol Police officer is honored: ‘We will never forget’
Brian Sicknick died after an insurrectionist mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, interrupting the electoral count after then-President Trump urged them to fight like hell to overturn his defeat.
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and NOMAAN MERCHANTAssociated Press
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Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, pay respects to U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick on Wednesday as an urn with his cremated remains lies in honor on a black-draped table at the center of the Capitol Rotunda in Washington.
Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via AP, pool
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