President Joe Biden signed legislation giving the men and women of the Capitol Police and the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department the Congressional Medal of Honor last week. But no mention was ever made of the thousands of other law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line protecting cities throughout the violent riots of 2020. Kamala Harris wearing a suit and tie talking on a cell phone© Provided by Washington Examiner “Police officers are not what you do,” Biden said of the officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6. “It is who you are. … It’s not some hyperbole to suggest ‘duty, honor, service.’ That’s who you are. … And America owes you a debt we can never fully repay.”
The nation does owe the officers who faced down a violent mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6 a debt of gratitude. But what about the debt we owe to the federal officers who faced a much larger, much more violent mob, night after night, while they protected the federal courthouse from rioters in Portland, Oregon?
What does America owe them? Nothing, apparently, since Biden did not make one mention of them in his speech.
Perhaps he has forgotten or doesn't care or doesn't think it is in his political interests to remember that, night after night, law enforcement officers...........
