Officer Brian Sicknick's Grieving Mom Hits The Hill To Plead For Jan. 6 Commission

LOADING ERROR LOADING The mother of Brian Sicknick, the police officer who died after being attacked during the Capitol insurrection, personally met with Republican lawmakers on Thursday to plead for their support to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot. “You know, usually I’m staying in the background, and I just couldn’t, I couldn’t stay quiet anymore,” Gladys Sicknick told reporters after a meeting with Sen. Mitt Romney, who has said he will vote for a commission. Sicknick later told reporters that senators are “supposed to uphold the Constitution, and right now I don’t think they’re doing it.” Sicknick was joined in the meetings by Sandra Garza, the fallen officer’s longtime partner, and Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who were also attacked during the siege that day. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is opposed to the commission because he insists it would be “partisan,” even though he angrily blasted Trump after the siege for his role in “provoking” it by feeding the public “lies.” McConnell offered to have a staff member meet with the fallen officer’s mom. The anti-Trump Republican Lincoln Project later slammed McConnell’s appeal to try to bury the “homegrown terrorist attack.” “McConnell is desperate to help Trump cover up the Jan. 6 attacks, to protect seditionist members of the Senate and House from investigation, and to push the violent attack on our government into the memory hole,” the organization said in a statement.