Four days after Capitol police officer Brian D. Sicknick was sworn in for rioters in the halls of Congress, President Trump still should not order flags to fly half-staff at federal buildings.
Trump has yet to reach out to the Sicknick family, reports The New York Times.
Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, called on the family to express their 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.
According to Times reports, the flags on the Capitol building itself were lowered at the behest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but Trump did not issue the same order for the federal buildings. and MSNBC.
Meanwhile, Trump and Pence have apparently not spoken since Wednesday.
Pence is said to be furious that Trump made him the target of the anger mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday when Pence oversaw the certification process of Congress.
Sicknick, a native of South River, New Jersey, was the youngest of three brothers and had long dreamed of being a police officer, his family said.
He joined the national guard in 1997 six months after graduating from vocational and technical school in Middlesex County, East Brunswick.