Two D.C. police officers who were present at the Jan. 6 Capitol riots sued to block the Trump administration’s planned $1.8 billion fund designed to compensate victims of so-called “weaponization” of the Justice Department, alleging the fund is a “corrupt sham” that could support organizations like militias making “credible death threats” against them.
D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, left, and former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, right, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday.
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The suit was filed by retired Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who is running for Congress in Maryland, and Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges, both of whom testified before Congress about the attacks.
Dunn and Hodges claim they have been “harrassed” by Capitol rioters since testifying, and have been facing “persistent threats of violence” since Trump issued broad pardons for Jan. 6 rioters after returning to office.
