Are there official lists or memorials naming the officers injured on January 6 2021 and details of their injuries?
Executive summary
There is no single public, government-maintained list that names every officer injured on January 6, 2021 and catalogues each of their medical details; federal reports and news outlets estimate about 140 officers were injured but individual injury records are fragmented across police unions, court filings and media accounts [1] [2]. Congress authorized an official commemorative plaque to honor officers, but its installation has been delayed and the plaque has been the subject of political dispute — there are replicas and local memorial efforts, but not a centralized, detailed roll call of injured officers and their medical records available to the public [1] [3] [4].
1. The official federal record: counts but not a public roster
Congress and federal agencies produced authoritative tallies — the legislative record cites “more than 140 law enforcement officers” injured with 15 hospitalized and several deaths tied to the attack, and Department of Justice materials repeat an estimate of about 140 officers injured — yet those sources do not publish a named, medical-by-medical roster for public access, reflecting privacy and investigative redactions common in law-enforcement records [1] [2].
2. High-profile named cases and medically documented injuries
A subset of officers voluntarily went public or appear in court and media records with named injuries: Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone’s assault, cardiac event and traumatic brain injuries have been widely reported; other officers such as those who testified to the House committee (including Corporal Eugene Goodman’s colleagues, Harry Dunn, Daniel Hodges, and others) have described concussions, shoulder and spinal damage, or PTSD in public testimony and legal filings — these are documented in news reporting and court records, not a single government list [5] [6] [7].
3. Police unions, the DOJ and media compiled details — but they differ
Police unions and outlets like The Washington Post, NPR and AP produced lists and injury tallies, describing concussions, lacerations, crushed spinal discs, pepper-spray exposure and career-ending disabilities; those compilations serve as the most complete public picture available, yet they are aggregated reporting rather than an official medical registry and often rely on union briefings, officer interviews and court exhibits [7] [2] [8].
4. Memorials: a law, a plaque and political stasis
Congress passed legislation authorizing gold medals and an official plaque to honor officers who defended the Capitol, but installation of that plaque has been delayed amid partisan disputes; AP reporting shows the authorized plaque was “nowhere to be found” at the Capitol on the fifth anniversary and that about 100 House members installed replica plaques outside their offices, underscoring a memorial that exists in fragments rather than as the congressionally mandated site monument [1] [3].
5. Legal and privacy limits on releasing names and medical details
Medical histories and personnel injury files are subject to privacy protections and, in many cases, are redacted in DOJ and court documents out of concern for officer safety and privacy; NPR and other outlets note that some court documents redact names for those concerns, which helps explain why no comprehensive, detail-rich public roster assembled by the government exists [2].
6. Competing narratives, political motives and the consequences
The absence of a single public list leaves space for competing political narratives: the White House and allied outlets have at times downplayed officer casualties or reframed January 6, while some officers and plaintiffs argue that Congress’s delay in honoring them is a willful erasure — these tensions suggest that administrative delays over a plaque and selective public disclosures are as much political as procedural [9] [4] [10].
7. Bottom line for researchers and families
Researchers, journalists and families must rely on a mosaic of sources — congressional findings, DOJ tallies, police-union statements, court filings, and investigative reporting — to piece together who was injured and how; there is no single, publicly available federal list that names all injured officers with full medical details, and the officially authorized Capitol plaque meant to memorialize the defenders remains politically contested and incompletely implemented [1] [3] [2].