The hero’s body, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, will return in honor next week to the building where he gave his life.
The 42-year-old New Jersey resident was sprayed with pepper spray and fatally beaten on January 6, while protesters invaded the Capitol to try to prevent President Biden’s election victory.
He died of his injuries a day later.
Sicknick’s coffin will arrive at 9 pm Tuesday at the East Front of the Capitol building, according to a statement by legislative leaders.
Members of Congress are invited to attend a two-hour screening the next morning at the Capitol Rotunda.
Sicknick will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
“The heroism of Officer Sicknick and the Capitol Police Force during the violent uprising against our Capitol helped save lives, defend the temple of our democracy and ensure that Congress was not diverted from our duty to the Constitution,” Mayor Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Schumer said in a joint statement.
“His sacrifice reminds us every day of our obligation to our country and to the people we serve.”
South Carolina Republican Congressman Ralph Norman and Senator Tim Scott presented the bill on Thursday that would allow Sicknick to lie in honor.
Only four previous people in the country’s history lay in honor at the Rotunda, including Rosa Parks and two Capitol police officers who were killed in the line of duty in 1998.
It is different from lying in the state, which is reserved for presidents, legislators and other dignitaries, in the sense that members of the Capitol police escort and guard the body, unlike the military.
The FBI is investigating dozens of suspects in connection with the Sicknick murder.