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BumRushDaShow

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Thu Jun 12, 2025, 02:38 PM Jun 12

Jan. 6 Officers File Suit Over GOP Refusal To Install Honorary Plaque [View all]

Source: Huff Post

Jun 12, 2025, 10:13 AM EDT | Updated 3 hours ago


WASHINGTON — Two police officers filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday over the refusal by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put up a plaque honoring officers’ sacrifice on Jan. 6, 2021.

Congress passed a law in 2022 setting a one-year deadline to install an “honorific plaque” naming officers who fought President Donald Trump’s mob rioters. It was to be placed on the Capitol’s west front where some of the worst violence of the day occurred. Johnson’s office said last year they were working on it, but the plaque is still missing.

According to the lawsuit, filed by former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, there is “no indication” that Congress intends to hang the plaque even as other memorials have been installed inside the Capitol for slain officers involved in other tragedies. The plaque commemorating Jan. 6 officers has been made, but Dunn and Hodges say Architect of the Capitol Thomas Austin has not received instruction from Johnson to install it.

A spokesman for the speaker did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-plaque-lawsuit-capitol-police_n_684ad9d9e4b04dad09cc4f72



Link to LAWSUIT (PDF) - https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2025/06/12/684ad3dfe4b0cf5f0c9b55d8.pdf
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