Washington: President Joe Biden will pay respect for law enforcement officers who respond to the January Capitol rebellion when he signed a law on Thursday to give them an honor medal for their services.
This is the highest honor congress that can provide.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden to sign law, which is forwarded unanimously by the Senate earlier this week.
Many officers were beaten and injured that day when the hordes of violence from supporters of President Donald Trump pushed through them to enter the building and disrupt the certification of Biden’s victory.
Some of them, including four who testified in a home hearing last week, had talked about eternal mental and physical scars.
The law will place medals in four locations – Capitol Police Headquarters, Metropolitan Police Department, US Capitol and Smithsonian Institutions.
The Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, said the medal was “recognition that will be displayed for people to understand and remember what these officers did.” When carrying a bill for voting on Tuesday, he said that children in the future would be able to walk with and see medals at the Smithsonian, and their parents would notify them: “This happens, this attack occurs.” The Senate issued a legal voice, without the Republican mindset.
The house passed the bill in June, with 21 Republicans who had underestimated the rebellion in Trump’s vote against it.
Trump, along with many Republicans is still loyal to him, has tried to change riots as a peaceful protest, even when law enforcement officers who answered that day had detailed violence and explained that it had happened to them.
The four officers who testified in the emotional trial last week detailed the experience of approaching death when rioters beat and destroy them on the way to the building.
Daniel Hodges metropolitan police officers described foaming in the mouth, bleed and shouted when the rioters tried to spit out his eyes and destroy it between two heavy doors.
Capitol police officers Harry Dunn said a large group of people shouted words to him when he tried to keep them from breaking the house.
At least nine people who were in the Capitol day died during and after the riots, including a woman who was shot and killed by the police when he tried to enter the home room and three other trump supporters suffering from medical emergencies.
Two police officers died of suicide in the days that were immediately followed, and the third officer, police officer Capitol Brian Sicknick, fainted and died after being involved with the protesters.
Medical examiner decides he dies because of natural causes.
Last week, the metropolitan police announced that two of their officers who responded to the rebellion had died of suicide.
Kyle Defreytag officers were found dead on July 10 and Gunther Hashida officers were found dead at his house on Thursday.
The situation that leads to their death is unknown.
“We grieve as departments,” police said in a statement.
In a ceremony to send bills to the president, the home speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that January 6 was “the moment, the tragedy day of the extraordinary tragedy for our country” and praised the Capitol police for their courage and patriotism.
“I’m very sad that it needs tragedy of this trait for recognition given to them,” said Pelosi.