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The partner of Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the January 6 attack on Congress, has sued Donald Trump alleging that the former president’s “campaign of lies and incendiary rhetoric” about the 2020 presidential election motivated the mob and played a “significant role in the medical condition” that killed the officer.
The lawsuit, filed in Washington DC federal court, names Trump and two other January 6 rioters who attacked Sicknick, and demands millions in damages. It was brought by Sicknick’s longtime partner, Sandra Garza, one day before the insurrection’s second anniversary.
Garza alleges that Trump’s months-long refusal to recognize Joe Biden’s win spurred violence that proved fatal to Sicknick. “Many participants in the attack have since revealed that they were acting on what they believed to be Defendant Trump’s direct orders in service of their country,” the lawsuit states.
It added that Trump’s speech hours before the riot, urging people to “fight like hell”, was “the culmination of a coordinated effort to subvert the certification vote”.
“Trump directly incited the violence at the US Capitol that followed and then watched approvingly as the building was overrun,” the lawsuit states.
