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.
“He makes sure he gets his face out there. The guy’s a #criminal. He’s the reason my son is dead — because of the riot at the Capitol,” Charles #Sicknick, Brian’s dad, told the DailyNews. “He’s a publicity hound. #Trump does whatever will get him votes & helps Donald Trump. There’s nothing good about that man.”
“Every time I see that an #officer has been killed in the line of duty, it really does affect me & I feel for that family.” Kenneth #Sicknick said.
“The fact is [#Trump] states he’s law & order but he sent a mob that ultimately ended up killing my brother. He has such a lack of self-awareness of what he does. He’s using that officer’s death as a campaign platform.”
#Trump was #indicted last year by a #federal#GrandJury for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, & has been blamed for #inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol on #Jan6.
He is currently under #indictment in #Manhattan for falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. He is also facing #racketeering charges in #Georgia for an alleged effort to subvert that state’s election laws following his loss to Biden in the 2020 election.
#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.
Julian Khater, 32, of State College, PA, & George Tanios, 39, of Morgantown, WV were charged w/ #assault & #conspiracy to injure an #officer in connection w/his death.
Khater was sentenced to 6 yrs in prison in Jan 2023, while Tanios was sentenced to time served awaiting trial — ~5 months.
In the aftermath, Charles #Sicknick said, #Trump waited 3 days after Brian’s body was released from the hospital to lower the flags at the White House to half-staff.
“The first one to call us was Joe #Biden & he was crying on the phone,” he said Friday. “The only thing Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump.”
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….”
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