A former U.S. Capitol police officer who defended lawmakers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and a man who served time in prison for joining the mob, could both be headed to Congress next year if they succeed in primaries later this month.
Their campaigns for respective Democratic and Republican nominations present a split-screen look into a divided nation more than three years after the siege by Donald Trump supporters trying to overturn his election defeat.
Dunn, 40, said he was thrust into politics by what he experienced on Jan. 6, which he said stoked his concerns about the stability of U.S. democracy.
When he was called to testify to the probe into the attack, Dunn, who is Black, described the way that rioters taunted him with racial slurs as they tried to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden’s election.
“Going forward, it is imperative on us that believe in democracy, that believe in the Constitution, to fight for it,” Dunn told Reuters in a Thursday interview near his campaign headquarters in Ellicott City, Maryland.
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