Four days after Capitol police officer Brian D. Sicknick was bludgeoned to death fighting rioters in the halls of Congress, President Trump still has to order flags to fly half-staff outside federal buildings, according to multiple reports.
Trump has also yet to contact the Sicknick family, The New York Times reported.
Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, has called the family to offer condolences, the Times noted.
Sicknick, 42, was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher while responding to the riot, and later died of his injuries, officials said.
Flags on the Capitol itself were lowered Friday, according to a directive from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but Trump has not issued the same order for the federal buildings under his jurisdiction, according to reports in the Times. and MSNBC.
Meanwhile, Trump and Pence have reportedly not spoken since Wednesday.
Pence would be outraged that Trump made him the target of Wednesday’s furious mob that stormed the Capitol while Pence oversaw Congress’s election certification process.
Born in South River, New Jersey, Sicknick was the youngest of three brothers and long dreamed of becoming a cop, his family says.
He enlisted in the National Guard six months after graduating from Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School in East Brunswick in 1997.