A moment of silence and medal ceremony highlighted a day of remembrance of the January 6 Capitol riot.
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President Joe Biden on Friday will mark the 2nd anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by honoring a dozen people who made "exemplary contributions to our democracy."
Those receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal include Caroline Edwards, the first law enforcement officer injured by rioters, and Shaye Moss, an election worker in Georgia who said she received so many death threats and racist taunts she changed her appearance and went into hiding.
Many of the recipients had delivered some of the most gripping testimony during the congressional investigation into the attacks.
Edwards said she was "slipping in people’s blood." Ruby Freeman, Moss's mother who also helped count Georgia's votes, said she left her home for two months on the FBI's advice.
“There is nowhere I feel safe,” Freeman testified. “Nowhere."
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Honestly, not ro be an ageist or anything, but what is it about government that draws the elderly and expired ideas to it? How can old typists with Commodore computers help us? 🐶
It is NOT the old that is the problem it is the CORRUPTION that is the problem, we need TERM LIMITS especially for the DEMOCRAT CRIME AND MURDER MACHINE MEMBERS.
DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS ARE PURE EVIL. BECAUSE OF THE CONDITION OF THE ECONOMY, AND OUR NATION, I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT AGAIN
WARMONGERS TO THE END, WASTING TAXPAYER $ AND INSIDER TRADING.
2017 California voters “approve” $52 BILLION Gas tax HIKE , to “fix the roads” 5 years later the roads STILL LOOK LIKE HELL.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
BEWARE OF THE POLITICAL PROFITEERS, VOTE FOR THOSE THAT WANT WHAT IS BEST FOR FAMILIES, FOR COUNTRY
I am NOT about partisan politics and want decent people to REPRESENT the taxpayers and am always in favor of the candidate that will NOT fight like HELL to murder babies
ACTUALLY OBSERVE THE WORLD AROUND YOU AND STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS IN DEMOCRAT RUINED CITIES. I AM NEITHER A (D) NOR AN (R) BUT THE EVIDENCE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF IN PLACES LIKE CHICAGO, ATLANTA, BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON D.C. AND MANY OTHER PLACES. VIOLENCE, CORRUPTION , HOMELESS AND ECONOMIES IN THESE AREAS ARE RUINED. THEY LIKE TO KEEP THINGS SEVERELY MESSED UP AND BROKEN DEMANDING MORE AND MORE $ TO FIX THE PROBLEMS THEY HELPED CREATE, PLACING BLAME EVERYWHERE BUT WHERE IT BELONGS, CREATING DIVISION AND DIVERSION WHENEVER POSSIBLE INCLUDING INVENTING NEW WAYS TO DIVIDE THE PUBLIC, THE PROBLEMS NEVER EVER DISAPPEAR BUT THE $$$$ ALWAYS ALWAYS DOES.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his 1961 warns AGAINST The military-industrial complex. THAT is on FULL display today
Thank you President Joe. Tricky 🇬🇧 ❤
You buy trumps orange nudes on Twitter 😂
Embarrassment to law enforcement!!!!
Russian republican traitor foh and get ready for four more years of Brandon chump
Another CLOWN SHOW
Like the orange clown 🤡
FJB and Pelosi.
What about the woman that was shot and killed
What about her? She was breaking into a federal building and was warned.
@Kyle Lennox so the solution is to shoot her in the neck? She wasn’t even armed.
They’ll honor these people but not the 13 soldiers they killed in Afghanistan two years ago.
What award did they give them for killing an innocent female veteran?
Good riddance. They all should’ve gotten Ashley Babbited.
@Steve Bwe will remember that in the next “summer of love…”
@Billy Goat where the right wing boogaloo boys were killing cops?
@Billy Goat wonder if it still hurts when Derek Chauvin goes to the shower. Or maybe he starting to like it.
Now law enforcement are heroes. What happened to “defund the police” and “pigs in blankets, fry em like bacon!”
That’s what Republicans say 🤡
@Alicia Velasco when?
@Turbo the Cat Jan 6. And the only people talking about defunding the police are red hats.
And pelosi gets away with another one . pathetic
B1, The only heros were the black FBA officers.
He is honoring Reichstag Fire “heroes”.
Celebrating Traitors Day!
You Republican Trumpsters are the Traitors
All the people in here need to be in gitmo
cheapening these awards
Ohhhhhh how about the cops that let them in !!!!!?????? Foh traitors !
Jah
When’s Polosi getting out of our lives?
Absurd