Jan. 6 Coin Reinstated After Mint’s Mysterious Removal

LOADING ERROR LOADING A commemorative bronze duplicate of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is once again available for purchase, just a little more than a week after it was found to have abruptly vanished from the U.S. Mint’s website. D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, who was attacked on Jan. 6, 2021, by rioters supporting President Donald Trump, said he also asked the Mint many times about the coin’s removal. D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges being assaulted and crushed in a tunnel entryway at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has called Jan. 6 a “day of love” and has referred to people who stormed the Capitol and assaulted police as “patriots.” “There will always be those who refuse to believe the truth, no matter how much evidence is put in front of them,” Hodges said. You just have to hope that the truth will out to enough people so that those who live in willful ignorance are ostracized and their conspiracies contained as a sad little contingent of wackos rather than an influential voting bloc.” Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who was on the receiving end of racist insults while he defended the Capitol, reflected on the coin’s removal and reinstatement on Monday.