Cops condemn Jan. 6 rioters' push for 'inclusive' plaque
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Left: Harry Dunn, former Capitol Police Officer, speaking at the Principles First Summit in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images). Inset left to right: Brian Mock, Cindy Lou Young in Jan. 6 exhibits from FBI statements of facts (DOJ).

A former U.S. Capitol Police officer and Metropolitan Police officer are pushing for the installation of a Jan. 6 memorial for law enforcement, specifically a plaque that was authorized by Congress in 2022. They criticized court submissions from two convicted and pardoned rioters, who the officers argue are attempting to “relitigate the reality” of that significant day.

The lawsuit by Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges is clear in its objective: to compel Architect of the Capitol Thomas Austin to install the plaque as directed by Congress.

Brian Mock and Cindy Lou Young, two of the many Jan. 6 convicts that received pardons from President Donald Trump, have since filed motions to intervene in the case, claiming that their rights are at stake.

In mid-June, Mock and Young — the former convicted for attacking cops and the latter for misdemeanors — asserted that any plaque should be “inclusive” and also “recognize the experiences” of the more than 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, including those in the crowd who died. For example, Mock and Young argue, Ashli Babbitt — who was shot and killed by a police officer as she climbed through a shattered window inside the Capitol — should be named in the memorial.

While Young said she and others have “endured significant personal, financial, and psychological hardships,” Mock claimed to have a “direct, personal stake in ensuring the accurate historical representation of that day” — his reputation and his constitutional rights.

In an opposition to these motions to intervene, Dunn and Hodges’ lawyers said Tuesday that Mock and Young “have no plausible claim” and that their intervention in the case on equal protection or due process grounds would be a legally baseless sideshow that would only tend to “cause unnecessary delay and prejudice.”

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“Mock and Young’s motions are timely, but little else,” the filing said. “To begin with standing, the purported interveners fail to identify any cognizable injury that they have suffered.”

“Unlike the Plaintiffs in this case, Mock and Young were not the intended beneficiaries of this memorial, and so its presence or absence affects them in only the most tenuous ways,” the opposition continued.

Beyond standing, the filing added, Mock and Young are “not a protected class” entitled to enter the lawsuit, let alone for the purpose of relitigating the “reality of January 6” following their convictions and pardons.

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