Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On August 5, 2021, Sicknick, along with Capitol Police officers Howard Liebengood and Billy Evans, and Metropolitan Police officer Jeffrey L. Smith, was posthumously honored in a signing ceremony for a bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to Capitol Police and other January 6 responders. His name is noted in the text of the bill, and Biden ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday paid tribute to the police officers who died after protecting the U.S. Capitol from violent insurrectionists on Jan. 6, calling them “heroes” and ...
Smith, 35, shot himself in the head on the George Washington Memorial Parkway on January 15, 2021, the day he was supposed to return to duty. [6] [2] [7] Smith's was the second of two police suicides in the immediate aftermath of the storming of the Capitol, the other being that of the U.S. Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood. [6]
The first active-duty service member to be charged in relation to the events of January 6. He allegedly pushed through a line of police officers guarding the Capitol's East Rotunda doors, held them open for others to enter the building, and later pushed a Capitol police officer who attempted to close them. [173] [174] [175] January 19, 2021
Former Capitol Hill Police Officer Winston Pingeon recalled the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters breached the Capitol in an apparent attempt to stop Congress’s certification of the Electoral ...
The deaths of five police officers are blamed on the Jan. 6 attack, two of those by suicide in the days that followed it. Four Trump supporters also died in the violence that day, including Ashli ...
H.R. 3325 (An Act to award four congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police and those who protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Pub. L. 117–32 (text), 135 Stat. 322, enacted August 5, 2021) was signed into federal law by President of the United States Joe Biden on August 5, 2021.
A United States Capitol Police Officer, who defended the Capitol during the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, vividly recounts the events of that day, describing it as a profoundly devastating experience ...