Jan. 6 Officers File Suit Over GOP Refusal To Install Honorary Plaque

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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

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

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1. Police officers file civil lawsuit seeking court order to hang Jan. 6 plaque at U.S. Capitol

Two police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack filed a federal civil lawsuit, asking a judge to order the hanging of a plaque to honor police heroes who protected the Capitol, lawmakers and staff from rioters.

Police officers file civil lawsuit seeking court order to hang Jan. 6 plaque at U.S. Capitol - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T12:08:16.853Z

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-officers-lawsuit-installing-jan-6-plaque-at-u-s-capitol/

Two police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack filed a federal civil lawsuit, asking a judge to order the hanging of a plaque to honor police heroes who protected the Capitol, lawmakers and staff from rioters.

The lawsuit cites a 2022 law signed by President Biden that required the honorary plaque be hung by March 2023. The plaque has been completed and in storage since at least last year, but GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson has not committed to installing it at the Capitol.

The dispute over the plaque has angered victims and inflamed a politically divisive issue on Capitol Hill. Republican leaders, who control the administration of the Capitol complex, have not honored requests by some officers and Democratic colleagues to hang the plaque, as required under federal law.

In their lawsuit, former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges argue President Trump has spun conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, that have been adopted by his Republican allies in Congress.

"After Congress passed the law, the politics of January 6 began to change. Donald Trump began to call the attack on the Capitol a 'day of love,' and said that 'the cops should be charged and the protesters should be freed," the lawsuit said. "As Trump's political fortunes rebounded, elected officials began to parrot his claims about the day."

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2. @speakerJohnson should be ashamed of himself.

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3. Police officers file civil lawsuit seeking court order to hang Jan. 6 plaque at U.S. Capitol

Two police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack filed a federal civil lawsuit, asking a judge to order the hanging of a plaque to honor police heroes who protected the Capitol, lawmakers and staff from rioters.

Police officers file civil lawsuit seeking court order to hang Jan. 6 plaque at U.S. Capitol - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T12:08:16.853Z

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-officers-lawsuit-installing-jan-6-plaque-at-u-s-capitol/

Two police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack filed a federal civil lawsuit, asking a judge to order the hanging of a plaque to honor police heroes who protected the Capitol, lawmakers and staff from rioters.

The lawsuit cites a 2022 law signed by President Biden that required the honorary plaque be hung by March 2023. The plaque has been completed and in storage since at least last year, but GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson has not committed to installing it at the Capitol.

The dispute over the plaque has angered victims and inflamed a politically divisive issue on Capitol Hill. Republican leaders, who control the administration of the Capitol complex, have not honored requests by some officers and Democratic colleagues to hang the plaque, as required under federal law.

In their lawsuit, former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges argue President Trump has spun conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, that have been adopted by his Republican allies in Congress.

"After Congress passed the law, the politics of January 6 began to change. Donald Trump began to call the attack on the Capitol a 'day of love,' and said that 'the cops should be charged and the protesters should be freed," the lawsuit said. "As Trump's political fortunes rebounded, elected officials began to parrot his claims about the day."

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4. The law and order party, republicans.

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5. Architect of the Capitol told House members he "had not received instructions from the Speaker to install the plaque"

That asshole Johnson is blocking this

Link to tweet

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6. They really want to make us forget about the last four years, don't they?

Well fuck that shit!