US Capitol police officer who died after riot lies in honour

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects to US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick as an urn with his cremated remains lies in honour (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AP)

Slain US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick was lying in honour in the famed domed building on Tuesday evening, allowing his colleagues and the politicians he protected to pay their respects and to remember the violent attack on Congress that took his life.

Mr Sicknick died after defending the Capitol on January 6 against the mob that stormed the building and interrupted the electoral count after then-President Donald Trump urged supporters on the National Mall to “fight like hell” to overturn his defeat.