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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro

Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay

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Visitors to the U.S. Capitol will now have a visible marker of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and a reminder of the officers who fought and were injured that day.

Steps from the Capitol’s West Front and where the worst of the fighting occurred, workers quietly have installed a plaque honoring the officers, three years after it was required by law to be erected. The plaque was placed on the Senate side of the hallway because that chamber voted unanimously in January to install it after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had delayed putting it up.

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