2026-03-07T16:00:00-0500 / CBS/AP
美国国会大厦的参观者现在将能看到一个明显的标记，纪念2021年1月6日发生的国会山骚乱，以及当天参与抵抗并受伤的警察。
在国会大厦西侧正面几步之遥，也是骚乱最激烈的地方，工作人员已悄然安装了一块纪念警察的牌匾，这块牌匾在法律要求设立后已延迟了三年。牌匾被放置在参议院一侧的走廊，因为在众议院议长、来自路易斯安那州的共和党人迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）推迟安装后，参议院在今年1月一致投票决定安装它。
牌匾上写着：”代表心怀感激的国会，这块牌匾向2021年1月6日勇敢保护和捍卫这座民主象征的非凡人士致敬。他们的英勇将永不被遗忘。”
《华盛顿邮报》率先报道了牌匾的安装情况，一名记者在周六美国东部时间凌晨4点左右目睹了这一过程。她发文称”看到两名员工在夜班时将牌匾固定在墙上”。
这是国会山暴力日的第一个官方纪念标志。超过150名警察受伤，5名在国会大厦执勤的警察在事后几天内死亡。
来自北卡罗来纳州的共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（Thom Tillis）领导了此次安装工作，以纪念1月份参议院大厅袭击事件五周年，并描述了他听到人们闯入国会大厦的记忆。”我们永远感激他们，这个国家因为他们而更加强大，”他在谈及那些被数千名特朗普支持者围困并最终将其驱逐的警察时说道。
国会大厦西侧正面附近的骚乱者暴徒们，是在共和党人特朗普被民主党人拜登击败后，呼应特朗普关于选举被窃取的虚假言论。人群阻止了国会对拜登胜选的认证数小时，导致议员们四处奔逃，并破坏了建筑，直到警方重新控制局面。
在特朗普去年重返白宫、共和党国会仍效忠于他的背景下，设立牌匾的斗争变得复杂。特朗普称1月6日是”充满爱的一天”，试图将责任推卸给民主党人和警方煽动了袭击，国会中的许多共和党人淡化了暴力行为。在他的第二次就职典礼后，特朗普赦免了1500多名在袭击事件中被定罪或指控的人，其中包括因袭击警察和煽动叛乱等暴力重罪被定罪的人。
国会在2022年通过一项法律，规定了荣誉牌匾的设置说明，列出”对发生的暴力事件作出回应的”警察姓名，并设定了一年的安装期限，但牌匾始终未安装。
民主党人对缺失的牌匾感到愤怒，在其办公室外安装了牌匾复制品，并呼吁共和党领导层树立牌匾或解释其缺失原因。
在长达一年多的沉默后——以及两名当天在国会大厦战斗的警察提起诉讼后——约翰逊办公室在1月5日（袭击事件五周年前夕）发表声明称，授权设立牌匾的法律”不可执行”，提议的替代方案也”不符合要求”。
一周后，蒂利斯在参议院发表讲话，通过了一项无异议的决议，将牌匾放置在参议院一侧。
起诉方之一、大都会警察局的丹尼尔·霍奇斯（Daniel Hodges）周六表示，诉讼将继续。霍奇斯已成为公开反对他所谓的对2021年美国国会山骚乱真相”粉饰太平”的倡导者。
“唯一能阻止我的是，如果人们停止对1月6日撒谎，承认当天发生的真实情况和事件经过，”霍奇斯在早些时候接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时表示。
霍奇斯说，骚乱者将他困在距离现在牌匾所在地几步之遥的中央西侧前门台阶处，他被踩踏并殴打。他表示，夜间安装是”不错的权宜之计”，但不符合法律的全部要求。
原始法律规定，牌匾应放置在国会大厦的”西侧正面”——而非附近——且牌匾上应列出警察姓名。新安装的牌匾附近有一个二维码，链接到一份45页的文件，列出了当天在国会大厦回应的数千名警察的姓名。
“司法裁决的力度将有助于确保纪念物不受未来篡改，”霍奇斯说，”我们的诉讼将继续。”
霍奇斯和前美国国会警察哈利·邓恩（Harry Dunn）在诉讼中称，国会通过不遵循法律、安装牌匾的方式，是在鼓励”重写历史”。
诉讼称：”这表明警察不值得被认可，因为国会拒绝承认他们的服务。”
司法部试图驳回此案。美国检察官让妮娜·皮罗（Jeanine Pirro）等人辩称，国会”已经通过批准牌匾公开认可了执法人员的服务”，展示牌匾不会缓解他们声称面临的问题。
霍奇斯、邓恩及其他讲述当天经历的警察不断受到忠于特朗普的人士的批评和威胁，这些人声称警察在撒谎。一些警察称，他们仍在承受心理创伤。
诉讼称：”两人都因当天的经历和政府拒绝认可其服务而承受精神创伤。”
监督立法部门的支出委员会高级民主党人、纽约州众议员阿德里亚诺·埃斯帕亚特（Adriano Espaillat）表示，”我们的国会警察应得到更多”，他将继续在这个问题上向约翰逊施压。
“毫无疑问：他们选择在凌晨4点安装，这样没人会看到，没有仪式，没有真正的认可，”埃斯帕亚特在X平台上发文称。
Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay: “Their heroism will never be forgotten”
2026-03-07T16:00:00-0500 / CBS/AP
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.
“On behalf of a grateful Congress, this plaque honors the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended this symbol of democracy on January 6, 2021,” the plaque says. “Their heroism will never be forgotten.”
The Washington Post first reported the installation of the plaque, which was witnessed by a reporter about 4 a.m. EST Saturday. The reporter posted that she “saw two employees working a nightshift,” bolting it to the wall.
It is the first official marker of the violent day in the Capitol. More than 150 officers were injured. Five police officers who served at the Capitol died in the days and weeks afterward.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., led the recent effort to install it as he commemorated the fifth anniversary of the attack on the Senate floor in January and described his memories of hearing people break into the building. “We owe them eternal gratitude, and this nation is stronger because of them,” he said of the officers who were overwhelmed by thousands of President Trump’s supporters and eventually pushed them out of the building.
Capitol tour guides take photos of a plaque honoring police service on Jan. 6, 2021 at the Capitol, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Washington. Allison Robbert / AP
The mob of rioters who violently forced their way past police and broke in was echoing Mr. Trump’s false claims of a stolen election after the Republican was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden. The crowd stopped the congressional certification of Biden’s victory for several hours, sent lawmakers running and vandalized the building before police regained control.
The fight to have the plaque installed came as Mr. Trump returned to office last year and the Republican Congress has remained loyal to him. Trump, who has called Jan. 6 a “day of love,” has tried to deflect blame on Democrats and police for instigating the attack, and many Republicans in Congress have downplayed the violence. After his second inauguration, Mr. Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people who were convicted or charged in the attack, among them, individuals convicted of violent and serious crimes, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.
Congress passed a law in 2022 that set out instructions for the honorific plaque listing the names of officers “who responded to the violence that occurred.” It gave a one-year deadline for installation, but the plaque never went up.
Democrats who were angry about the missing plaque installed replicas of it outside their offices and called on the GOP leadership to erect it or explain why it was missing.
After more than a year of silence – and a lawsuit from two officers who fought at the Capitol that day – Johnson’s office put out a statement on Jan. 5, the night before the fifth anniversary of the attack, that said the statute authorizing the plaque was “not implementable” and the proposed alternatives also “do not comply.”
Tillis went to the Senate floor later that week and passed a resolution, with no objections from any other senators, to place the plaque on the Senate side.
One of the officers who sued, Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan Police Department, said Saturday that the lawsuit would continue. Hodges has become an outspoken advocate against what he calls the whitewashing of what really happened on Jan. 6, 2021 during the U.S. Capitol siege.
“The only thing that will stop me is if people stop lying about Jan. 6 and just acknowledge what the day was and what really transpired,” Hodges told CBS News in an earlier interview.
Hodges, who was crushed and beaten by rioters while trapped in the central west front doors steps away from where the plaque is now displayed, said the overnight installation was a “fine stopgap” but that it was not in full compliance with the law.
The original statute said that the plaque should be placed “on” the west front of the Capitol — not near it — and that the officers’ names should be listed on the plaque itself. The new installation has a nearby sign with a QR code that leads to a 45-page document listing the thousands of names of the officers who responded to the Capitol that day.
“The weight of a judicial ruling would help secure the memorial against future tampering,” Hodges said. “Our lawsuit persists.”
Hodges and a former U.S. Capitol Police officer, Harry Dunn, said in the lawsuit that Congress was encouraging a “rewriting of history” by not following the law and installing the plaque.
“It suggests that the officers are not worthy of being recognized, because Congress refuses to recognize them,” the lawsuit says.
The Justice Department has sought to have the case dismissed. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and others argued that Congress “already has publicly recognized the service of law enforcement personnel” by approving the plaque and that displaying it would not alleviate the problems they claim to face from their work.
Hodges, Dunn and other officers who have told of their experiences that day have been repeatedly criticized and threatened by people loyal to Trump who say the officers are lying. Some of the officers say they are still struggling.
The lawsuit says that “both men live with psychic injuries from that day, compounded by their government’s refusal to recognize their service.”
New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the top Democrat on the spending committee that oversees the legislative branch, said “our Capitol Police deserve more” and that he would continue to push Johnson on the issue.
“Make no mistake: they did this at 4AM so no one would see, no ceremony, no real recognition,” Espaillat posted on X.
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