A New Jersey man who admitted to assaulting NJ native and Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray during the Jan. 6 insurrection has been sentenced to more than six years in prison.
Capitol police officer and NJ native Brian Sicknick died a day after being assaulted during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Though natural causes were cited in an autopsy, a $10 million lawsuit accuses President Donald Trump of riling up violence.
The New Jersey mother of fallen Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick has been meeting with Republican U.S. senators, pressing for support of a 9/11 style commission into the events of the insurrection at the Capitol.
Federal agents arrested 32-year-old Julian Elie Khater, of State College, as he got off a plane at Newark Airport on Sunday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Investigators say they have zeroed in on a suspect who appears to have sprayed a chemical substance, possibly bear spray, on Brian Sicknick before he collapsed at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.