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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects to the late U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick at 10 p.m. Tuesday. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool))
Officer Brick Sicknick graduated from the East Brunswick Middlesex County vo-tech school in 1997. (Released by Capitol Police)
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff pay their respects. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
New Jersey Congressman Tom Malinowski (D), center, at Sicknick s urn. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
Congressman Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, pays his respects Wednesday morning. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
Subscribe He paid the ultimate price in fulfilling his oath, Slotkin wrote.
Today, I spoke with Army Secretary McCarthy, CJCS Gen. Milley, and Air Force Chief of Staff General CQ Brown to ask that U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, a veteran, be given posthumous special honors and burial at Arlington National Cemetery. pic.twitter.com/10Z1jmiJzq
The DC Police Union also noted that a memorial fund has been set up for Sicknick and his family, many of whom live in the South River area. A GoFundMe page has been set up to take donations.
Subscribe Officer Sicknick shared a passion for the outdoors and became a member of the mountain bike unit with Capitol Police, patrolling the grounds daily, the DC Police Union wrote. His fellow officers remember him as someone they could always count on to be there and also could always bring a smile or laugh to them.