“The pervasive stigma is insane,” said Karen Solomon, co-founder of Blue H.E.L.P., a group that has tracked and honored officers lost to suicide since 2016. The national memorial and the federal Public Safety Officers’ Benefits program do not recognize suicides as “line-of-duty” deaths, a designation that not only memorializes officers’ service but provides hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and other assistance to survivors. For years, officers’ families and mental health advocates have sought to call attention to glaring inequities in how law enforcement and the country respond when police take their own lives in close proximity to their involvement in traumatic events. 6 will not be eligible for engraving on the marbleized limestone regarded as sacred ground for U.S. Yet as families and colleagues from across the nation gather Thursday to honor fallen officers at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Liebengood’s name and the three others who died by suicide after Jan. Liebengood’s death, and those of three District of Columbia Metropolitan Police officers who took their own lives after being deployed to the siege, compounded a fracture in American life that reverberates nearly 10 months after the attack. “Howie” Liebengood Center for Wellness is expected to serve as a resource and an acknowledgment of the mental health support needed to sustain the department, which lost the 51-year-old officer to suicide after the Capitol attack. Capitol Police Department this year, lawmakers included a health facility to be named for a beloved officer who died three days after the riot Jan. WASHINGTON – When Congress approved millions in aid for the battered U.S. 4 Police died by suicide after the Capitol riot it’s the reason their names won’t be memorialized
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