Fallen Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick's partner called out Sen. Lindsey Graham for being 'very disrespectful' during a Jan. 6 commission meeting

• Sandra Garza said Lindsey Graham "looked bored" as an officer recounted his experiences at the riot.
• "I feel like you're being very disrespectful," officer Brian Sicknick's partner told Graham in May.

Sandra Garza, the longtime partner of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, recalled confronting Sen. Lindsey Graham while advocating for a bipartisan commission to investigate January 6.

Sicknick died the day after the attack after suffering two strokes. Francisco J. Diaz, the chief medical examiner of Washington, D.C., said that "all that transpired" at the Capitol riot "played a role in his condition."

Garza told The New York Times that she and Sicknick supported former President Donald Trump and had doubts about the 2020 election. She met with Graham and other Republican senators in May, alongside other officers, as the Senate considered approving the commission.

But, Garza said, Graham appeared bored and distracted while D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone recounted his experiences during the riot, so she confronted the South Carolina senator.

"I feel like you're being very disrespectful, and you're looking out the window and tapping your fingers on the desk,'" she recalled telling Graham. Another Republican senator then tried to tell her she was misreading Graham's body language, further infuriating her, according to The Times.

South Carolina's junior senator, Tim Scott, was also at the meeting and said that both he and Graham were in favor of accountability, but not a commission.

In a statement at the time, Graham said that he would not support the commission, because its "approach will turn into a partisan food fight." Graham's office did not respond to Insider's request for comment for this story.

In May, a motion to begin debate on a bill to create a bipartisan January 6 commission garnered 54 votes in the Senate, failing to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster and allow a vote on the bill.

Every Democrat present voted for it, while only Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Rob Portman of Ohio voted for it.

With a bipartisan commission blocked in the Senate, House Democrats created their own select committee to investigate January 6.