Four days after Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick was killed by riot police fighting in death halls of Congress, President Trump has not yet ordered flags to fly halfway across federal buildings. according to various reports.
Trump has also not reached out to the Sicknick family, The New York Times reported.
Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, has called on the family to offer condolences, the Times noted.
Sicknick, 42, was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher while responding to the riots and later died from his injuries, officials said.
On Friday, according to a directive from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flags were lowered in the same Capitol building, but Trump has not issued the same order for the federal buildings that correspond to him, according to Times reports and MSNBC.
Meanwhile, Trump and Pence would not have spoken since Wednesday.
Pence is said to be furious at Trump for making him the target of Wednesday’s angry crowd that stormed the Capitol while Pence oversaw the congressional election certification process.
Sicknick, a native of South River, New Jersey, was the youngest of three siblings and had long dreamed of being a police officer, according to his family.
He enlisted in the National Guard six months after graduating from Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School in East Brunswick in 1997.