‘Sleaze-slinging’ Fox News denounced by family of January 6 officer who died

Fox and Tucker Carlson, the family said, ‘will do the bidding of [Donald] Trump or any of his sycophant followers’. Photograph: Brian Cahn/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

The family of Brian Sicknick, the US Capitol police officer who died the day after the January 6 attack on Congress, condemned Tucker Carlson and Fox News as “unscrupulous and outright sleazy”, after the primetime host made first use of security footage from the riot bestowed by Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House speaker.

A statement on Tuesday said: “The Sicknick family is outraged at the ongoing attack on our family by the unscrupulous and outright sleazy so-called news network of Fox News.”