House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday paid tribute to the police officers who died after protecting the U.S. Capitol from violent insurrectionists on Jan. 6, calling them “heroes” and “martyrs of democracy.”
“This week we learned now it’s up to five officers who defended democracy on Jan. 6 who’ve died,” Pelosi said during her weekly press conference.who responded to the Jan. 6 attack, Gunther Hashida and Kyle DeFreytag, died by suicide last month, bringing the known number of officers who’ve taken their own lives in the aftermath of the deadly riot to four. D.C. Police Officer Jeffrey Smith and U.S.
D.C. Metropolitan Police Officers Gunther Hashida, Kyle DeFreytag and Jeffrey Smith and U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood all died by suicide after responding to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
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