Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn has had the same goal for the last five years: Tell the truth about the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, and hold Donald Trump accountable for whatever his role was in it.
“I’m so tired and exhausted, but the fight continues to go on,” Dunn told HuffPost. “We’re always having, it seems, to show up, just a few people, to remind America or push back against politicians saying, ‘We need to move on from Jan. 6.’ But we can’t move on until we acknowledge what happened correctly and without this administration trying to lie and rewrite what happened that day.”
What it means to show up has evolved over the last few years.
When he was still on the force, Dunn was one of just a handful of officers who willingly came forward in the wake of the attack to testify publicly about the harrowing experience he endured defending the Capitol. He often appeared on television to push back against conspiracy theories about Jan. 6 and spent years going in and out of D.C. courtrooms, offering sworn testimony about his experience.
Dunn was an integral witness for the government when the Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy trial unfolded in 2022, ultimately blowing apart claims by members of the extremist organization that they were “helping” him and other officers to quell the mob that day.
