Harry Dunn, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who defended the building during the Jan. 6 riot, is joining a wide field seeking the seat being vacated by Democratic Rep. John Sarbanes in Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District.

Dunn, 40, who was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Citizens Medal and published a memoir last year called “Standing my Ground,” announced his candidacy for the Democratic primary on Friday, almost exactly three years after a day that he said took a toll on his emotional health.

“On January 6th, 2021, I did my duty as a police officer and as an American and defended our nation’s Capitol from violent insurrectionists,” Dunn said in a release on Friday. “Today, I’m running for Congress because the forces that spurred that violent attack are still at work and as a patriotic American, it is my duty to defend our democracy.”

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    Wait… What? Did you just say that all laws are based on white supremacy? I can’t possibly have read that right.

    So like… Don’t molest children. If you enforce that law… It’s white supremacy. Rape? Murder? Mugging?

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      They dont enforce laws on any of those issues. By the time those events happen is up to the purview of the courts.

      SCOTUS has ruled they are not obligated to protect or serve.

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        They are still kind of sort of part of getting them into those courts…right?

        Yes I know what the SCOTUS said and thats a whole other fucking can of worms. What I think needs to be done to fix the police in this shithole country is a LONG FUCKING RANT but im just saying…you know. Its not inherently racist to have laws and enforce them. We just have a bunch of racist fucks who need to be fucking dealt with HARSHLY enforcing them racially.

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      Obviously laws don’t exist in countries where white people are a minority. But if they did, and they hired citizens to enforce it, they’re now racists and bigots forever

      /s

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        The funnier part is if you think this through to its logical conclusion he’s saying only minorities commit crimes as the laws to stop the crimes are white supremacy.

        It’s not the first time ive seen someone trying so hard to show the are not racist that the end up saying some racist fucking shit.

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          Haha yeah I’ve seen the same. A lot of things I see people saying today all feel like part of the Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit song where shes singing

          when logic, and proportion have fallen sloppy dead, and the white knights are talking backwards <- And the red queens off with her head

          Just remember what the dormouse said