Congress mourns officer who died from accidents defending Capitol
WASHINGTON — Mourning has begun in Congress for Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died Thursday from accidents sustained whereas defending the Capitol from a violent mob.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the flags on the Capitol lowered to half-staff in Sicknick’s honor, and dozens of lawmakers launched statements condemning violence and thanking officers for his or her service. Late Thursday evening, many legislation enforcement officers have been seen parking autos in a line to carry a second of silence — the blue and purple lights silently flashed in entrance of the golden glow of the illuminated Capitol Dome.
Sicknick, 42, was on responsibility Wednesday when pro-Trump rioters entered the constructing, vandalizing property and leaving lawmakers terrified. He was injured whereas “bodily participating with protesters,” a Capitol Police assertion mentioned. The army veteran returned to his division workplace and collapsed. He was taken to a neighborhood hospital, the place he later died.
“Your entire USCP Division expresses its deepest sympathies to Officer Sicknick’s household and mates on their loss, and mourns the lack of a good friend and colleague,” the assertion mentioned.
The New Jersey native, who lived in Springfield, Virginia, had most not too long ago served as a member of the Capitol Police’s First Responders Unit.
—CQ-Roll Name
14 passengers is likely to be banned after no-mask, rowdy flight from DC to Seattle, Alaska Airways says
SEATTLE — No less than 14 individuals might be positioned on Alaska Airways’ banned passengers record after they have been rowdy, argumentative and refused to put on masks on a flight from Dulles Worldwide Airport to Seattle, the airline mentioned.
Airline spokesperson Ray Lane mentioned these going through the potential ban have been on Flight 1085 from the D.C.-area airport to Sea-Tac Worldwide Airport on Thursday evening.
“Final evening, numerous passengers onboard Alaska Airways Flight 1085 from Washington Dulles to Seattle have been non-mask compliant, rowdy, argumentative and harassed our crew members,” Lane wrote in an e-mail Friday morning.
“Their habits was unacceptable. We apologize to our different company who have been made uncomfortable on the flight.”
The 14 passengers face being positioned on Alaska’s ban record, Lane mentioned.
So far, Alaska Airways has banned 288 individuals for violating its masks coverage, not together with the 14 potential additions, he mentioned.
—The Seattle Occasions
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski calls on Trump to resign, questions her future as a Republican
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, mentioned Friday that Donald Trump ought to resign the presidency instantly and that if the Republican Celebration can’t separate itself from Trump, she isn’t sure she has a future with the occasion.
“I need him to resign. I need him out. He has prompted sufficient injury,” Murkowski mentioned throughout a 17-minute interview from her small Capitol workplace, steps away from the Senate chambers that have been invaded by pro-Trump rioters Wednesday.
“I feel he ought to depart. He mentioned he’s not going to point out up. He’s not going to seem on the inauguration. He hasn’t been centered on what’s going on with COVID. … He must get out. He must do the great factor, however I don’t suppose he’s able to doing a very good factor,” she mentioned.
Murkowski mentioned that whereas “there could have been many, many, many, many good Individuals who got here to Washington, D.C., as a result of they felt strongly in assist of this president,” the president incited them to storm the Capitol after a speech close to the Washington Monument.
Requested whether or not she intends to stay a Republican, Murkowski mentioned that depends upon the occasion itself.
—Anchorage Each day Information
President Bolsonaro mistrusts COVID-19 vaccines, and Brazil is falling behind
Throughout the globe, presidents and prime ministers are scrambling to attain valuable vials of COVID-19 vaccine to guard residents and acquire political favor. Not Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
The president, who from the beginning has belittled the pandemic, refuses to be vaccinated, pooh-poohs any want to barter with drug corporations and says the nation will look forward to costs to fall earlier than shopping for syringes or needles. On Thursday, he mentioned Brazilians don’t even need vaccines — info he obtained by polling individuals on the street and on the seaside.
“It’s nonsensical, these are experimental vaccines with no scientific proof. You’ll be able to’t impose this on individuals,” Bolsonaro mentioned. “Now we have to be accountable, we are able to’t go along with the gang saying we have to rush.”
His dismissal is quickly leaving Brazil behind within the world race to immunize in opposition to a virus that has killed virtually 1.9 million individuals, 200,000 of them in Brazil. Whereas neighboring Argentina, Chile and Mexico have begun deploying photographs, Brazil doesn’t also have a clear time-line to take action. Corporations have been gradual to submit requests to the native regulator, who has 10 days to clear the photographs earlier than they are often distributed. Talks with Pfizer Inc. have dragged on for 2 months.
—Bloomberg Information
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