
The family members of a fallen US Capitol police officer said they snubbed Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders during a congressional gold medal ceremony not for partisan reasons, but because it was an “integrity issue”.
“We were talking about saying something and then we said, ‘No, I think the best way is to just ignore them.’ And we had no idea it was going to blow up like this. We just – we really didn’t. And I’m glad it did because I think it made them think about what they do,” Gladys Sicknick, mother of Brian Sicknick, said in an interview to CNN’s This Morning show.