Mother of fallen Capitol Police officer lobbies GOP senators on Jan. 6 commission

Gladys Sicknick, the mother of fallen Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, met with senators on Capitol Hill Thursday ahead of a vote on the Jan. 6 commission.

The mother of fallen Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick returned to the site of the Jan. 6 attack on Thursday to lobby Senate Republicans to vote to establish a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the assault she argues caused her son's death. "This is why I'm here today, and I'm usually I'm staying in background, and I just couldn't -- couldn't stay quiet," she told reporters as the Senate was poised to vote on starting debate on the commission proposal -- a move Republicans have threatened to filibuster. Sicknick was brutally attacked by rioters, video shows, and died a day later after suffering two strokes. The Washington, D.C., medical examiner determined last month a stroke is specifically what caused Sicknick's "natural" death.