WASHINGTON ― After years of delays, the U.S. Senate will soon hang a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
“I’ve been assured from the Leader’s office that they’re in the final stages of putting it up. Location decided,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Monday in an exclusive interview with HuffPost.
Tillis, a leading advocate of the effort, said the bronze plaque will be positioned in a hallway on the Senate side of the Capitol building, and that this is likely to occur sometime next week.
The North Carolina Republican also said he is planning to commemorate the event with a ceremony to honor the hundreds of law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol from a mob of violent supporters of Donald Trump. Approximately 140 police officers sustained injuries that day.
“I intend to plan something around it to remind people, and frankly, to apologize [to] the Capitol Police and everybody that responded that day for taking so long,” Tillis said. “It should have never taken this long, and quite honestly, it wouldn’t have happened if we didn’t make it an issue.”
