{"id":110171,"date":"2021-02-03T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110171"},"modified":"2021-02-03T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:42:14","slug":"capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-lies-in-honor-at-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110171","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lies in honor at Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110172\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sicknick-Remains.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110172\" class=\"wp-image-110172 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sicknick-Remains.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sicknick-Remains.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sicknick-Remains.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sicknick-Remains.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sicknick-Remains.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Brian Sicknick&#8217;s cremated remains arrive at the Capitol under USCP honor guard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Officer Brian Sicknick, the US Capitol Police officer who died from injuries sustained in the rioting at the Capitol on 6 Jan, 2021, is lying in honor at the US Capitol.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109149\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/brian-sicknick.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109149\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109149\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/brian-sicknick.jpg?resize=210%2C262&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Brian Sicknick, USCP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sicknick was a US Air Force veteran and had been with the Capitol Police for 12 years. Sicknick has been honored by the Congress he died defending by being lain in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. This is one of the nation&#8217;s highest honors, and is reserved for Presidents and other great figures of American history.<\/p>\n<p>Lying in honor in the Capitol Rotunda has only been done four times for five Americans: three members of the United States Capitol Police killed defending the building (Ofcs Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson in 1998 and Ofc Sicknick in 2021), in 2005 for civil rights activist Rosa Parks, and in 2018 for evangelist and minister Billy Graham.<\/p>\n<p>As for the difference between lying in state in the Rotunda or lying in honor, near as I can tell it&#8217;s largely semantics. If you include <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_funerals_in_the_United_States#List_of_lying_in_state_and_honor_recipients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">those who have lain in state<\/a>, there is still a very short list of Americans that Sicknick&#8217;s name now joins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer Brian Sicknick, the US Capitol Police officer who died from injuries sustained in the rioting at the Capitol on 6 Jan, 2021, is lying in honor at the US Capitol. Sicknick was a US Air Force veteran and had been with the Capitol Police for 12 years. Sicknick has been honored by the Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-sEX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}