The family of #BrianSicknick, the #PoliceOfficer who died during the #Jan6 attack, blasted Trump’s appearance at a wake Thurs for slain #NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller.
Charles & Kenneth Sicknick on Fri expressed condolences to Diller’s family, but said #Trump’s appearance, especially the #PressConference outside a funeral home, was nothing but an #inappropriate#PoliticalStunt.
#BrianSicknick was 42 & a member of the #CapitolPolice when he responded to the unrest on #Jan6, 2021. During the turmoil, Sicknick was attacked by two rioters who sprayed him with pepper spray. He returned to his base & collapsed. Medics rushed him to a hospital, where he died the next day.
…He reportedly suffered two strokes.
“…Officer Sicknick died in the line of duty, courageously defending #Congress & the #Capitol,” the Capitol police said in a stmnt at the time.
The family held a memorial for #BrianSicknick in Jan & visited his grave at Arlington National Cemetery. “We went over to Arlington to talk to him, to my son’s ashes,” Charles said. “He was a good & decent young man & it’s terrible that this happened because of some lunatic who was in the White House.”
In the 3 yrs that have passed, Kenneth Sicknick says the public’s memory seems to have faded, “It seems like #Jan6 is 100 yrs ago for some people, & people don’t realize #Trump is responsible….”