He said no one had ever called him the N-word while he was in uniform. “Then the crowd, perhaps around 20 people, joined in, screaming, ‘Boo! F-ing n-!’" he testified. “One woman in a pink MAGA (Make America Great Again) shirt yelled, ‘You hear that guys, this n- voted for Joe Biden!’” said Dunn, who has served more than a dozen years on the Capitol Police force. When Dunn said that he had voted for Biden and that his vote should be counted, a crowd began hurling a racial slur at him. Harry Dunn, a Black officer, recalled an exchange he had with rioters who disputed that Biden defeated Trump. More than 100 officers were injured, some severely.Ī group of officers testified to Congress in July about the physical and verbal abuse they faced from supporters of former President Donald Trump. While Bush managed to escape the Capitol and barricade with her staff in her office in a nearby building, dozens of police officers faced down the violent mob in hours of frantic hand-to-hand combat. The history of this country has been that type of language and imagery is directed right at us in a very negative and oftentimes violent way.” "But it's especially different for Black people because of our history. “First of all, as a Black woman, that is already just tough on a level that’s different from what a white person would experience," Bush said of the imagery and rhetoric surrounding the attack, especially the Confederate flag that was carried by a rioter inside the Capitol.
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Jeff Roberson/AP Show More Show Lessīut for people of color, including many in Congress, the attack was more than a violent challenge to a free and fair election - it was an eerily familiar display of white supremacist violence, this time at the very seat of American democracy. The Confederate flags in the crowd, and the makeshift noose and gallows erected on the Capitol grounds, spoke to a more sinister reality. 6, 2021, only her third day as a member of Congress, she knew what was about to take place would be no peaceful protest. But as she looked out the window of the Capitol on Jan. Louis and Ferguson, Mo., rising to public office on the strength of her activism. She spent years marching the streets of St. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during an interview Nov. Jeff Roberson/AP Show More Show Less 2 of5 FILE - Rep.
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