"Battling the Mob, a Black Officer Came Face to Face With Racism"

[LymphocyteLover]

“Black officers fought a different battle” on Jan. 6, said Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police officer. Here is what he saw and heard when rioters, including white supremacists, stormed the Capitol.


"“It took a horrific toll on us,” Officer Harry Dunn of the Capitol Police said of the attack on Jan. 6. “Mental health has always been a stigma. Nobody wants to talk about it.”

"WASHINGTON — The racist slurs hurled at Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police officer, during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol were cited as evidence this month in the Senate’s impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump. Until this week, Officer Dunn had remained anonymous.

Now, Officer Dunn, 37, who is Black and is a 13-year veteran of the force, and who grew up in nearby Prince George’s County, Md., is ready to speak publicly about the violence and racism he experienced at the hands of a pro-Trump mob during that dark day in American history.

Standing 6-foot-7 with a muscular frame, Officer Dunn is an imposing figure, but he says the bigotry and trauma he experienced that day were enough to intimidate anyone. Now that he’s talking about his experience, he says other Black officers have told him that they, too, experienced racist slurs from the mob."

NYTimes
https://t.co/djBJzyCxNR?amp=1

[RussellCattle]

1. A great example of "the mob mentality". None of the little shits would be brave enough to call....

....him anything other than "sir" if they had been alone.

[LymphocyteLover]

2. probably-- though clearly they were all racist fucks to start with