A Former Federal Officer Is Running For Congress Because 'We're In Regime Territory'

The “havoc and terror” inflicted on America by Trump, his yes men and the administration’s supporters in Congress is a dynamic all too familiar to former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn.

“I have been on the front lines,” he said.

Five years ago, Dunn was one of the Capitol police officers defending the members of Congress from Trump’s mob on Jan. 6, 2021, enduring a torrent of violent attacks and racial slurs. He held the line amid chaos — and in a moment of perhaps some irony now — he rushed to give a woman CPR on the floor inside the office of Democrat Rep. Steny Hoyer.

This year, it was just a few hours after Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis that, hundreds of miles away in Maryland, Dunn decided to run for Congress.

“I said, ‘We’ve got to do this. We have to do this. People are dying and we have to push back and get in there,’” he recalled in an interview with HuffPost this week.