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Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who grew up in South River and was killed in the Jan. 6 takeover of the U.S. Capitol. (Provided by U.S. Capitol Hill Police.)
NEW JERSEY – The FBI arrested two men and charged them with assault against U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, a New Jersey native who died after he responded to the Jan. 6 riots and takeover attempt at the U.S. Capitol. One of the men was arrested Sunday getting off a plane at Newark airport.
Sicknick, who grew up in South River, was among several officers who were assaulted in connection to the riot. Five rioters died in the takeover.
Guard waited more than three hours for approval to respond to Capitol riots, official says March 3 Members of the National Guard gather near the U.S. Capitol before the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) National Guard troops faced unusual restrictions and deployment delays from senior Pentagon leaders amid the attempted insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, including a more than three-hour wait for deployment approval even as rioters overran the halls of Congress, a senior Guard official told senators on Wednesday. “I was frustrated,” said Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard. “We had guardsmen on buses … just waiting to get the approval. I believe that number could have made a difference [earlier], we could have helped extend the perimeter and helped push back the crowd.”
Guard response to Capitol riots wasn’t hurt by politics, officials insist February 23 Members of the National Guard patrol the area outside of the U.S. Capitol on the third day of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, on Feb. 11, 2021. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) Former Capitol Hill security officials on Tuesday insisted their decision not to involve more National Guard forces ahead of the deadly attack on the Capitol building on Jan. 6 was the result of intelligence analysis that underrated the threat on Congress and not concerns about the “optics” of having military personnel on Capitol Hill.
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By Mark Alexander web posted February 22, 2021
I have waited five weeks to write what I instinctively suspected a day after Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died. I waited, anticipating that evidence would emerge confirming Officer Sicknick s
actual cause of death, and hoping for evidence to dissuade the inescapable conclusion that, irrespective of how he died, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), et al., used his casket as a political prop for their impeachment inquisition of former President Donald Trump. Having started my career as a law enforcement officer, I did not want to make assertions or draw conclusions about a fellow officer s death without evidence to back it up. For the same reason, news of his death exponentially elevated my anger at the Capitol rioters.
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