Officers sue to force Congress to hang plaque honoring police who defended US Capitol on Jan. 6

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Source: WUSA

CAPITOL RIOTS
Officers sue to force Congress to hang plaque honoring police who defended US Capitol on Jan. 6

DC Police Officer Daniel Hodges and former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn filed a civil suit in federal court in D.C. seeking an order enforcing a 2022 law.

Author: Jordan Fischer
Published: 2:54 PM EDT June 12, 2025
Updated: 2:54 PM EDT June 12, 2025

WASHINGTON — Two officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot filed a civil lawsuit this week seeking to ensure a long-delayed plaque commemorating law enforcement’s efforts that day is finally hung.

Officers Daniel Hodges, who remains with the DC Police Department, and Harry Dunn, who left the U.S. Capitol Police in late 2023, sued in federal court in D.C. on Thursday to force the Architect of the Capitol to abide by a 2022 law passed by Congress requiring the plaque to be placed.

The bronze plaque, which honors the “extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended” the Capitol on Jan. 6, lists the names of 19 agencies whose officers responded to the riot. Under an omnibus bill passed with bipartisan support three years ago, the plaque was required to be installed by March 2023.

But Republicans retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections and have, so far, declined to direct the architect to place the memorial. Democrats have repeatedly called on Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) to hang the plaque, which currently sits in a storeroom, and have accused him of not following the law out of a desire to avoid angering President Donald Trump, who has called Jan. 6 defendants “political prisoners.” … Last month, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called on Johnson to hang the plaque during National Police Week.

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