The family of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died hours after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, refused to shake hands with Senate Minority Leader McConnell and House Minority Leader McCarthy during a ceremony.
She called out congressional Republicans who continue to support former President Trump, “go down to Mar-a-Lago and you know, kiss his ring or whatever the hell they do down there, you know.” She met with Republican lawmakers last year asking for them to vote in support of creating a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Capitol attack. McConnell and McCarthy were opposed to the commission.
“They continue to perpetrate the big lie, or at least not denounce it, which is basically the same thing, and they refuse to condemn Donald Trump,” he said, referring to the former president’s false claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 election. “I mean, they’re speaking here today in honor of the officers and what happened but at the same token out of the other side of their mouth, ... they’re doing a lot to support what caused the events of January 6, instead of denouncing them,” Craig Sicknick said.said he was “surprised” McCarthy made an appearance at the ceremony.
“That ceremony happened in spite of Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, not because of them," he added."And so, the fact that they got to go there and speak words, I mean, they were meaningless.”told NBC News that members of MPD heckled him inside the rotunda during the ceremony.
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