One of the foremost prominent and candid figures within the repercussions of the January 6, 2021, assault trusts to return to the US Capitol with an unused work title: Congressman.
Previous US Capitol Police
Officer Harry Dunn, who was on obligation amid the January 6 assault and who
afterward affirmed to the House January 6 select committee, affirmed to CNN
that he is running for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional Area.
Dunn is one of fair a modest
bunch of officers who have freely talked out around the viciousness he and
other individuals of law authorization experienced that day, and the
significant and enduring affect it’s had on him.
“Obviously, my encounters on
January 6 I saw firsthand majority rule government beneath attack,” Dunn told
CNN. “It’s no embellishment to say we are one decision absent from the
termination of our popular government as we know it right now.”
In spite of the trauma, Dunn, a
15-year experienced of the drive, kept on work as a Capitol Police officer
until he ventured down a few weeks prior. He says part of the reason he’s
running is since previous President Donald Trump may be reelected.
“I accept that as a Capitol
Police Officer, I’ve depleted everything that I seem do in that part, in that
capacity to battle, for responsibility, to battle for equity, to protect our
majority rule government, to battle for a democracy,” Dunn said.
Dunn has too faulted Trump for
the Capitol insurrection.
“I wanna do everything in my
control that I can do to battle back against him,” Dunn said. “As a
congressman, that gives me a situate at the table presently to hold him
accountable.”
Nearby DC Metropolitan Police
Officer Michael Fanone, DC Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, and
Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, Dunn affirmed to the January 6 committee
in July 2021, portraying the savage and exasperating scenes he seen.
“Capitol Police officers and
Metropolitan Police officers, MPD, were locked in in frantic hand-to-hand
battling with agitators over the west lawn,” Dunn said at the hearing. “I see
the agitators utilizing all sorts of weapons against officers, counting
flagpoles, metal bicycle racks that they had torn separated, and different
sorts of shots. Numerous were shouting, and numerous were blinded and hacking
from chemical aggravations being showered in their faces.”
Dunn has talked approximately
what he portrays as supremacist insults yelled at him on January 6 by
agitators, telling The Unused York Times that more than 20 individuals called
him the N-word, and one lady shouted, “This [slur] voted for Joe Biden!”
“A parcel of us Dark officers
battled a distinctive fight than everyone else fought,” Dunn said. “That’s when
I said, ‘Is this America?’ and I began crying. Tears are coming down me
confront. ‘Is this America?’”
Dunn was granted the
Congressional Gold Decoration in December 2022 and gotten the Presidential
Citizens Medal on January 6, 2023, two years after the assault.
He to begin with implied that he
might run for Congress after Rep. John Sarbanes, a Democrat, declared final
October that he would not look for reelection. “I see there's planning to be an
open Congressional situate in Maryland,” Dunn posted on X, at the side a
looking eyes emoji.
Dunn joins a swarmed field of
other Majority rule hopefuls who are running for Sarbanes’ situate, counting
Maryland state representatives, house delegates and others. The Majority rule
essential will be held on May 14.
If Dunn wins the situate, he
would be the moment part of Congress who has served as a Capitol Slope Police
officer. The primary in the long run rose to gotten to be Senate lion's share
pioneer.
“The late Harry Reid was a
Capitol Police Officer,” said Dunn. “So, I figure I don’t intellect being
moment to him.”
