Capitol Police officer testifies about racial slurs of the insurrectionists
Warning: Graphic language is in the following video clip. During the House select committee’s first hearing on the Jan. 6 attack, Capitol Police Pfc. Harry Dunn testified about the racial slurs he heard as the insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol. He said, "No one had ever called me a n***** while wearing the uniform.”
Video transcript
HARRY DUNN: I'm a law enforcement officer and I do my best to keep politics out of my job. But in this circumstance, I responded. Well, I voted for Joe Biden. Does my vote not count? Am I nobody?
That prompted a torrent of racial epithets. One woman in a pink MAGA shirt yelled, "You hear that, guys? This nigger voted for Joe Biden." Then the crowd-- perhaps around 20 people-- joined in screaming, "Boo, fucking nigger." No one had ever, ever called me a nigger while wearing the uniform of a Capitol Police officer.
In the days following the attempted insurrection, other Black officers shared with me their own stories of racial abuse on January 6. One officer told me he had never in his entire 40 years of life been called a nigger to his face, and that streak ended on January 6.
Yet another Black officer later told me he had been confronted by insurrectionists in the capitol who told him, "Put your gun down, and we'll show you what kind of nigger you really are."
