The long-delayed memorial plaque honoring police who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2020, was finally installed this morning at 4 a.m. this morning.
The tribute, which lists the names of almost two dozen local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, was required by law to be installed by March 2023.
Exclusive: A memorial plaque honoring law enforcement’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was quietly installed inside the U.S. Capitol early Saturday morning.
The memorial was required by law to be installed by March 2023. https://t.co/Zj80KfrkcZ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 7, 2026
From the Washington Post:
In the predawn hours Saturday, around 4 a.m., staff with the Architect of the Capitol bolted the bronze plaque to a granite wall near an entrance on the west front, close to where the armed crowd had amassed and scaled scaffolding set up for the inauguration.
There was no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept.
The quiet installation, which Congress ordered completed by mid-March 2023, marks the latest turn in the contested effort to remember Jan. 6, as Trump continues to reframe the riot as patriotic and the rioters as victims of a weaponized justice system.
The plaque has reportedly been sitting in the Capitol basement amid maintenance equipment.
Apparently the only thing keeping the plaque from public view was House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) instructing the Architect of the Capitol to install it. Read more here.
Last year, nearly 100 House Democrats installed copies of the plaque outside their offices (lead photo).
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