U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Harry Dunn is sworn in to testify earlier than the Home Choose Committee investigating the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021, on the Cannon Home Workplace Constructing in Washington, D.C. | Supply: Pool / Getty
A former officer with the U.S. Capitol Police Division who’s been known as a hero for his actions stemming from the notorious Capitol riots introduced his candidacy for Congress partially by vowing to “cease” the identical form of home terrorists whose actions on Jan. 6, 2021, have been instantly influenced by Donald Trump.
Harry Dunn, who was on the entrance traces throughout the Capitol assault and subsequently testified earlier than Congress about how his Jan. 6 expertise was largely racist, used an emotional video shared on social media to formally launch his marketing campaign on Friday, the eve of the third anniversary of the partisan revolt.
U.S. Capitol Police Officers Pfc. Harry Dunn’s shirt is seen because the attends a listening to held by the Choose Committee to Examine the January sixth Assault on the U.S. Capitol on June 9, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. | Supply: Drew Angerer / Getty
Harry Dunn for Congress
With violent imagery mirroring the Capitol chaos practically three years in the past and haunting music enjoying within the background, Dunn says within the marketing campaign video that he “swore an oath to guard our structure” and democracy.
“It’s what allowed me to guard some members of Congress who I knew have been bigots who helped fan the flames that began all of this,” Dunn, 40, says about Jan. 6.
Dunn, a Democrat, mentioned he “put nation above self” whereas these aforementioned Congress members he helped save from hurt’s means “voted to acquit” the twice-impeached Trump and “denied the violence and trauma that led to the deaths of a few of my former officers.”
Crediting the spirit of “good bother” championed by the late Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, Dunn mentioned his expertise on the Capitol that fateful day is the rationale he’s working for Congress.
Having not too long ago resigned following a profession with the U.S. Capitol Police Division spanning greater than 15 years, Dunn additionally warned that Trump is “hellbent on ending what he began at the present time.”
Reminding his followers that Biden awarded him with the Presidential Residents Medal – the second-highest honor the federal government awards – Dunn wrote on social media that he’s “working for Congress to cease Trump’s MAGA extremists & guarantee it by no means occurs once more.”
It was a becoming launch to a marketing campaign for a person who bared his soul throughout his emotional testimony earlier than the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
In an unforgettable and equally unsurprising second, Dunn, who’s an African American raised in Maryland’s Prince George’s County, testified throughout the summer time of 2021 that “nobody had ever, ever known as me ni**er whereas sporting the uniform of a Capitol Police Officer” till Jan. 6.
“Till then I had by no means seen anybody bodily assault Capitol police or MPD, not to mention witness mass assaults being perpetrated on regulation enforcement officers,” Dunn testified.
Dunn added later: “I advised them to only depart the Capitol, and in response they yelled, ‘no man, that is our home. President Trump invited us right here. We’re right here to cease the steal.’”
Dunn testified that the expertise compelled him to tug apart one other Black officer with the U.S. Capitol Police in disbelief.
“I sat down on a bench within the rotunda with a good friend of mine who can be a Black Capitol police officer and advised him in regards to the racial slurs I endured,” Dunn mentioned. “I grew to become very emotional and started yelling, ‘how the clean may one thing like this occur. Is that this America?’”
Dunn summed all of it up neatly: “It was simply so overwhelming and so disheartening and disappointing that we stay in a rustic with individuals like that.”
Later, California Rep. Adam B. Schiff, a Democrat, requested Dunn to expound on the racist components throughout his response to the Capitol rioters. “Is that this America?” Schiff requested Dunn.
“The truth that we had our race attacked and simply due to the best way we glance, you realize … To reply your query, frankly, I assume it’s America,” Dunn responded. “It shouldn’t be, however I assume that’s the best way that issues are.”
Evaluating Jan. 6 to a “struggle,” Dunn added to his reply.
“So I assume it sounds foolish, however I assume it’s American … nevertheless it’s not the aspect of America that I like. It’s not the aspect that any of us right here signify,” Dunn advised Schiff. “We signify the nice aspect of America, the individuals who really imagine in decency.”
U.S. Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell, Washington Metropolitan Police Division officer Michael Fanone, Washington Metropolitan Police Division officer Daniel Hodges and U.S. Capitol Police sergeant Harry Dunn (from L to R) attend a U.S. Home choose committee listening to on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2021. | Supply: Xinhua Information Company / Getty
2024 Election in Maryland
Dunn is working for Maryland’s third congressional district, which has been represented by U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes for the final eight phrases. However Sarbanes, a Democrat, is just not in search of reelection, leaving a gap for Dunn to hitch the sphere of a minimum of 9 different candidates in search of the congressional seat.
That features a minimum of seven candidates vying for the Democratic nomination.
The Maryland Democratic main is scheduled for Could 14.
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