Posted on 12/06/2022 1:34:16 AM PST by Libloather
Top House and Senate leaders will present law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 with Congressional Gold Medals on Tuesday, awarding them Congress's highest honor nearly two years after they fought with former President Donald Trump’s supporters in a brutal and bloody attack.
To recognize the hundreds of officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the medals will be placed in four locations - at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation last year that a medal will be placed at the Smithsonian museum “so all visitors can understand what happened that day.”
The ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda comes as Democrats, just weeks away from losing their House majority, race to finish a nearly 18-month investigation of the insurrection. Democrats and two Republicans conducting the probe have vowed to uncover the details of the attack, which came as Trump tried to overturn his election defeat and encouraged his supporters to “fight like hell” in a rally just before the congressional certification.
Awarding the medals will be among House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s last ceremonial acts as she prepares to step down from leadership. When the bill passed the House more than a year ago, she said the law enforcement officers from across the city defended the Capitol because they were “the type of Americans who heard the call to serve and answered it, putting country above self.”
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Which ones?
The ones that opened the doors and invited the people in?
The ones that stood around and took selfies with the people?
The ones that gave them directions once they were inside?
Commies do love their medals.
I am surprised any were actually Capital Hill officers. I had assumed that Nancy had emptied all of the nearby prisons, rather than call on the National Guard, as President Trump suggested.
Democrats sure know how to reward ineptitude.
Participation Awards
ROTFL! Clowns. Give them each a sack of Gold Medal flour. That wasn’t a real “insurrection”. Geez. Talk about a bunch of drama queens.
Of course the pig who murdered an unarmed Air Force veteran will get the Rat Party Medal of Honor for his “bravery” in defending Bella Pelosi’s coffee machine from damage.
Drug runners...wire fraud...other serious crimes vs trespassing. Pretrial detention is *only* to prevent flight...not for punishment. It seems unlikely that any of the trespassers would be fleeing the jurisdiction!
:)
What are you talking about??? Of course it was a real insurrection! If I ever decided to try to overthrow the US Government I’d make sure that I had my moose antlers on and my nail clippers in my pocket as I was filing calmly through the velvet ropes that the Capital Police had set up at the main entrance.
Getting a medal for opening doors. /sweet
Who is Ashlii Babbitt?
An award for welcoming the trespassers into the capital with open doors, yea, makes sense.
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