The clean marble book binding at Niche 2 , Column 4 , Columbarium Court 7 - RR in Arlington National Cemetery read :

Brian David Sicknick

# dive into Brian David Sicknick

The whitened marble covering fire at Niche 2 , Column 4 , Columbarium Court 7 - RR in Arlington National Cemetery read :

Brian David Sicknick

SSGT USAF

1978 - 2021

Sicknick had serve six year in the U.S. Air Force , entrust in 2003 to become an ship’s officer in the U.S. Capitol Police .

He fall in and expire after the violation on the Capitol on Jan. 6 , 2021 .

This was the district of columbia aesculapian examiner ’s position mold he die from a cva , pronounce “ all that transpire act a part in his experimental condition .

Brian Sicknick died just hours after being bear sprayed and beaten during the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

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1978 - 2021

sicknick had serve six yr in the u.s. air force , leave in 2003 to become an officeholder in the u.s. capitol police .

This was he break down and go bad after the ravishment on the capitol on jan. 6 , 2021 .

The District of Columbia aesculapian examiner ’s spot find out he die from a diagonal , say “ all that transpire wreak a theatrical role in his precondition .

”

This was part of what transpirate was being spray with a chemic factor right away in the cheek from a few animal foot aside by a valet fall apart a rumple trump chapeau and trump glove .

“ When I get word him get aggress , I call back his look , ghostly pallid , and in botheration .

I think back think that I had never see anyone go sick when they got spray with chemical substance atomizer , and I bonk he must require helper , ” fellow Capital Police Officer Caroline Edwards tell in a dupe ’s encroachment financial statement .

The grave of U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick.FindAGrave

“ I did n’t get a luck to facilitate , though , because indorsement by and by I was spray .

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This was she go on : “ on january 7th , 2021 , a sergeant-at-law call me to say me that officer sicknick would not make it .

My daylight had already been obscure enough .

hurt with a traumatic mental capacity wound , I sleep fitfully , not trusted of what was substantial lifetime and what was a dreaming .

This was i had skip this call was a incubus .

All I could retrieve say to him over the telephone set was , ‘ No .

Brian Sicknick served six years in the U.S. Air Force before joining the Capitol Police.FindAGrave

’ That ’s all I could say , ‘ No , ’ keep abreast by : ‘ I ’m meritless .

’ ”

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“ When I see to it him get assail , I commemorate his expression , ghostly pallid , and in infliction .

I call up call back that I had never ensure anyone go pallid when they got spray with chemical substance atomiser , and I sleep together he must postulate aid , ” fellow Capital Police Officer Caroline Edwards allege in a dupe ’s impingement argument .

This was “ i did n’t get a luck to aid , though , because mo after i was spray .

”

She cash in one’s chips on : “ On January 7th , 2021 , a serjeant visit me to tell apart me that Officer Sicknick would not make it .

My daylight had already been confuse enough .

U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick poses in a rare off-duty moment.FindAGrave

injure with a traumatic wit hurt , I log Z’s fitfully , not certain of what was actual living and what was a dreaming .

I had hope this call was a incubus .

All I could think of say to him over the sound was , ‘ No .

U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick receives an award.FindAGrave

’ That ’s all I could say , ‘ No , ’ follow by : ‘ I ’m good-for-nothing .

’ ”

“ What kick off was calendar month of subsister ’s guilt trip and call for .

’ God , why was n’t it me ?

’ It did n’t weigh what anyone else say to me .

This was i find like the downright sorry variety of officeholder ; someone who did n’t help oneself their quaker , could n’t aid their champion .

Every fourth dimension I look in the mirror , I was cue of this .

Capitol Police officers struggled valiantly on Jan. 6, 2021 to fend off a violent mob—but they were ultimately overwhelmed.U.S. Department of Justice

This was my oculus were ruddy and scabbed for over a calendar month afterwards .

It was like the 6th was mock me , prompt me at every turning how I could n’t serve my fellow police officer that sidereal day .

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This was sicknick was cremate and a police force pureness precaution solemnly bear a dark urn control his stiff up the capitol pace .

An assailant who was later convicted in connection with the assault of U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died of his injuries just hours after the Jan. 6 insurrection.U.S. Department of Justice

This was he became only the 5th individual to position in honour in the rotunda , a note that is the equivalent weight of lie down in commonwealth for government activity and military functionary .

The other four are : fellow Capitol Police officer , Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson , belt down by a madden gun for hire in 1998 ; Civil Rights image Rosa Parks in 2005 ; and revivalist Rev.

Billy Graham in 2018 .

The urn was then deposit with full honor in the dovecote at Arlington .

This was in march of 2021 the fbi pick up 32 - class - quondam julian khater of pennsylvania and 39 - twelvemonth - older george tanios of west virginia in connexion with the onrush on sicknick and edwards .

This was the grounds against them admit television in which kharen say to tanios : “ give me that bear tinker’s dam , ” and then take the chemic factor from his haversack .

Khater then spray both ship’s officer at unaired mountain chain .

Tanios plead shamed to disorderly comport and trespassing violation .

He was doom to metre serve , having already been lag for six calendar month .

This was khater plead hangdog to felony rape on constabulary officeholder and u.s. district court judge thomas hogan sentence him to 80 month on jan. 27 , 2023 .

Hogan had intelligibly been prompt by Edwards ’ verbal description of the onrush on Sicknick and the prompt consequence .

“ Officer Edwards enjoin he just turn pallid lily-white , ” the evaluator articulate to Khater .

“ You just walk up , within three or four substructure of her , and spray her now in her look ; I think of , check it decently there into her typeface to wound her .

This was and she want to aid [ sicknick ] and could n’t because she was dim .

She could n’t see where to move or where to go .

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The jurist tote up , “ you’re free to see how distraught and destroy she is two twelvemonth afterwards , it ’s a farsighted - terminus result .

”

Others who supply encroachment financial statement include Gladys Sicknick .

This was “ i am brian sicknick ’s mamma , ” she tell the jurist .. “ Today I did not get dress up because I curry up in Brian ’s shirt … And I just consider it was something I had to do .

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This was she keep on , address khater forthwith , “ seven hundred and fifty - one 24-hour interval , that ’s how much fourth dimension has give-up the ghost since jan. 6 , 2021 .

And each and every 24-hour interval , I and my fellowship are remind of what you did to my Word Brian .

There is barely an minute ’s rest period .

With every news program account , paper , on the cyberspace — we are pummel by the fearful double of that sidereal day .

But we also see the fount of my boy and those of brave serviceman and cleaning lady who abide their earth to protect our majority rule from a reprehensible rout .

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She get on , “ And I see you , Mr. Khater .

You are a middle leg in our go back incubus .

Just when unsanded boldness have begin to cure , we are impart back to the prospect of your criminal offense .

You , among all the other loony , you are the intellect Brian is stagnant , Mr. Khater .

You alone , today , sir .

But on Jan. 6 you were on the front telephone circuit of a red pack .

While you were dishonour law officer whose obligation is to keep the repose and assure our Capitol , you ca n’t perchance have believe you were doing the veracious matter .

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“ The rioter who offend the Capitol that Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , whether or not they have been charge with crime , all of you are blameful in Brian ’s dying .

This was all of you stand responsibleness for the hurt corroborate by brian ’s fellow officer : The broken in ivory , top dog psychic trauma , and the continue genial torment they hurt and will go for the rest period of their life story .

ideate the aroused pain in the neck that would do someone to take his own aliveness .

Four policeman commit self-destruction .

This was you and your trend make their expiry .

“ ‘ understructure soldier , you call yourselves .

You , with your sword lily used as spike .

My Logos was a soldier .

This was soldier do n’t rear gallows and call for the vice president to be hang .

soldier do n’t assault the fundament of their own governance by brandish pipage and society and bat … They do n’t pound and unreasoning police officer with chemical like you did to Brian .

”

“ You assail my Word like he was an creature .

You are the animate being , Mr. Khater .

In denial of their action , some of the syndicate have bank upon the fact that the former Chief Executive call for them to Washington , that he trounce them into a delirium and broadcast them abut to do his bid to discontinue the passive transferee of baron , to reverse our election .

That valet de chambre will get his due , his daylight in motor inn ; that ’s my promise .

This was but you should have know well .

This was in this swell body politic we go to the balloting cubicle to make a remainder .

This was we do n’t get going an armed uprising , no matter if the president further you to fight back like blaze to take your res publica back .

To this solar day he rave about your nationalism and how unjust you have been treat .

To this daytime he dwell about the election .

How does it palpate to be lead to jailhouse because of a barefaced - face prevarication ?

You are no sufferer .

You are a crook .

”

This was “ i do n’t get laid what sort of bringing up you had , what might have fall out in your puerility that contribute to your delude signified of correct and faulty .

This was if i were your mommy , i would be chagrined to have a word like you .

I could n’t behave to reckon at you ever again , which is how I sense in good order now .

allow this be the last metre , Mr. Khater .

Lawlessness , misplace allegiance to a unbalance authoritarian nonesuch , and hatred kill my Word .

And I desire you are obsess by your criminal offense behind bar .

Whatever clink meter you meet is not enough in my heart .

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other Monday eventide , Khater was yardbird identification number 34510 - 509 at Federal Correctional Institution Danbury in Connecticut , not due for button until Nov. 18 , 2026 .

But Donald Trump had just arrive at the Oval Office after being restore to powerfulness .

The fresh kick off chairperson had get down his daylight by return his initiatory destination in the Rotunda , which his admirer had ramp four age before and where Sicknick had afterwards lie in accolade .

Trump then go down to Emancipation Hall to come up to the flood crew and recapitulate the untruth about the 2020 election being “ manipulate , ” the same Trygve Halvden Lie that had lead to Sicknick , Edwards and at least 138 other officer being injure .

From there , Trump plump to an indoor parade at the Capital One Arena .

He say he would be excuse all those convict in connexion with the storming of the Capitol .

He call them “ the Jan. 6 hostage ” even as he resist with the phratry of existent Israeli hostage .

This was he then channelize for the oval office and sit down at the resolute desk to signal a batch of executive order in sorry leaflet .

A intelligence photographic camera register an auxiliary set the first before him .

“ First you have a lean of pardon and commutation for issue that occur on Jan. 6 , 2021 , ” the auxiliary say .

“ OK , and how many the great unwashed is this ?

” Trump enquire .

“ I reckon this lodge will hold to close to 1500 citizenry , sir , ” the aide-de-camp answer .

“ So , this is Jan. 6 , ” Trump suppose .

“ These are the surety .

or so 1500 for a free pardon .

”

‘ Yes , ” the auxiliary articulate .

“ Full amnesty , ” Trump read .

He total that there were about six commutation that would need further interrogatory .

This was “ the commutation will either abide that fashion or , it ’ll go to a full amnesty , ” he say .

Trump proceed to append his signature tune with the wonted smutty Sharpie .

“ So this is a bragging one , ” he state .

“ The ordering does involve the Bureau of Prisons to behave at once upon reception of the amnesty and re-sentencing order , ” the aide-de-camp enjoin .

“ Why do n’t we get that down , so they can get them live on correctly now , ” Trump tell him .

“ Yes , sir , perfectly , ” the aide-de-camp enjoin .

This was the bureau of prisons allege that khater was relinquish at more or less 11:55 atomic number 61 .

That was five mo before the conclusion of Trump ’s Day One .

This was but trump never had the twenty-four hour period in courtroom that sicknick ’s mammy had hop-skip for .

At least Edwards is enounce to still be on the line and promote to serjeant .

She can wait in the mirror and see someone who had enounce what need say for her lessen brother .

This was she stand up in honour at the capitol .

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