Bob Unruh served up his latest attempt to whitewash the Capitol riot in a June 13 WorldNetDaily article:
Two law enforcement officers have filed a lawsuit against the federal government for failing up put up a plaque in Washington recognizing those police officers who were on hand for the Jan. 6, 2021, protest where dozens, maybe hundreds, of Americans sauntered into the Capitol.
Some committed vandalism.
And some of the officers were injured in confrontations that developed after some security forces opened doors for the protesters and guided them in.
Hundreds were arrested and convicted of enhanced charges, sometimes after spending years awaiting trial, in cases that extended into this year. However, President Donald Trump wiped convictions out with executive pardons on his first day in office.
[…]The only person killed that day was an unarmed California woman, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot at point-blank range by a Capitol Police officer and died. Her family recently settled a lawsuit over her death with a $5 million payment from the government. Several officers did commit suicide in the months following.
Unruh provided no evidence that charges against any rioter were needlessly “enhanced,” and refuses to mention that at least some of those officer suicides are considered to be in the line of duty. Unruh went on to grouse:
The plaintiffs are Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges and former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn. They both have been outspoken critics of Republican comments about those confrontations.
The lawsuit claims, “Both men live with psychic injuries from that day, compounded by their government’s refusal to recognize their service.”
Hodges claims rioters ripped a gas mask from his fact and dislodged his helmet, while Dunn said rioters yelled racial slurs at him.
Interestingly, Unruh doesn’t bother to refute the claims made by Hodges and Dunn about violent and hateful rioters. But he also doesn’t detail the “Republican comments” they have been critical of — presumably because those comments were all about minimizing the riot, just like Unruh is paid to do.