The ceremony will come nearly two years after police fought with former President Donald Trump’s supporters in a brutal and bloody attack.
In this image from a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer's body-worn video camera, Mark Ponder strikes an officer with a pole at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, He was sentenced to more than five years in prison on July 26, 2022. By MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO, The Associated Press
To recognize the officers who were there, the four medals will be placed at the U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. Four officers who testified at a House hearing last year spoke openly about the lasting mental and physical scars, and some detailed near-death experiences.
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