
Writer, Presidential Voters Medal recipient and previous U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who defended Congress from pro-Trump confederates Jan. 6, 2021, introduced his personal run for Congress on Friday. He's getting into the hotly contested race to prevail retiring Democratic lawmaker John Sarbanes in Maryland’s third District.
Within the announcement video, Dunn introduces himself whilst strolling via a re-enactment of the violence that erupted within the Capitol on Jan. 6. And he says his movements that day required him to position apart his private identification — as “a father, a Marylander, [and] a Democrat” — to give protection to democracy. And he says his talent to prioritize the Charter over himself is what “allowed me to protect some members of Congress who I knew were bigots, who helped fan the flames that started all of this.”
Dunn addresses them additional, announcing “I put country above self,” in contrast to the lawmakers who sided with the violent mob that attacked him: “Some of the same people who stood behind us when we protected them went back on the floor of Congress and stood behind Trump. They voted to acquit him. And worst of all, they denied the violence and trauma that led to the death of some of my fellow officers.”
Within the video, Dunn explains that he lately left the Capitol Police power to run for Congress.