Flag Half Staff notice – for Capitol Police Officers
by Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon
January 11, 2021
Governor Mark Gordon, pursuant to President Donald Trump's
Proclamation honoring U.S. Capitol Police Officers, has
ordered both the U.S. and State of Wyoming flags be flown at
half-staff statewide until sunset on Wednesday, January 13.
The Presidential Proclamation follows:
HONORING UNITED STATES CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
As a sign of respect for the service and sacrifice of
United States Capitol Police Officers Brian D. Sicknick and
Howard Liebengood, and all Capitol Police Officers and law
enforcement across this great Nation, by the authority vested
in me as President of the United States by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order
that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-
staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and
grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all
naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of
Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories
and possessions until sunset, January 13, 2021. I also
direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the
same length of time at all United States embassies,
legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad,
including all military facilities and naval vessels and
stations. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
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2/9/2021 Update: Two police officers committed suicide after
the incident and one officer died of unknown causes
afterwards. Early claims were that he was fatally struck by a
fire extinguisher, but the Medical Examiner reports found no
evidence of blunt force trauma or that his cause of death was
by the rioters. One woman was shot and killed by a police
officer during the riot.
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