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This #Jan6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the #Capitol

The official plaque honoring the #police who defended #democracy that day is nowhere to be found.

It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by #law. Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.

#NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2

AP News

This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the Capitol

Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy is nowhere to be found.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

5 years ago, the jarring scene watched the world over was declared an “ #insurrection” by the then-GOP leader of the #Senate, while the #House #GOP leader at the time called it his “saddest day” in #Congress. But those condemnations have faded.

#Trump calls it a “day of love.” And #MikeJohnson, who was among those lawmakers challenging the 2020 election results, is now House speaker.

#Jan6 #NeverForget #history #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 5 days ago

…At least 5 people died in the riot & its aftermath, including #Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by police while trying to climb through a window toward the House chamber. >140 law enforcement officers were wounded, some gravely, & several died later, some by suicide.

All told, ~1,500 people were charged in the #Capitol attack, among the largest federal prosecutions in the nation’s #history. When Trump returned to power, he pardoned all of them within hours of taking office.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

In Washington, a capital city lined with monuments to the nation’s #history, the plaque was intended to become a simple but permanent marker, situated near the Capitol’s west front, where some of the most #violent fighting took place as #insurgents breached the building.

But in its absence, the missing plaque makes way for something else entirely — a culture of forgetting.

#Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 5 days ago

Visitors can pass through the #Capitol without any formal reminder of what happened that day, when a mob of #Trump supporters stormed the building trying to overturn the Republican’s 2020 reelection defeat to Democrat #JoeBiden. With memory left unchecked, it allows new narratives to swirl & revised histories to take hold.

#Jan6 #NeverForget #history #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 5 days ago

This #Jan6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the #Capitol

The official plaque honoring the #police who defended #democracy that day is nowhere to be found.

It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by #law. Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.

AP News

This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the Capitol

Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy is nowhere to be found.