Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's
Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th Hardcover – 24 Oct.
2023
by Harry Dunn
The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police
Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one of the most prominent and
essential voices regarding the truth of that day.
Walking the halls of democracy as a Capitol Police
officer, Harry Dunn was a man slowly experiencing an awakening. It sparked
after the election of our first Black president. It grew as his belief in the
bravery and honor of law enforcement was shaken by Ferguson and countless other
cases of police brutality towards the Black community. It continued to burn
brighter as he watched members of Congress, many of whom he had befriended,
lose their way to partisanship, as political extremism intensified. And it exploded
into a blaze when he fought side by side with his fellow officers on January
6th, when democracy and their lives were threatened.
Standing My Ground provides a crucial, definitive
firsthand account of what happened on that day our country was shocked to its
core. But it will also share the story of a man who refused to stay quiet when
he learned that some of the men and women he had risked his life protecting,
who knew him by name, would deny the horrors they faced. That's when he chose
to speak up and to seek out what his hero John Lewis once termed "good
trouble." Dunn's ongoing story as a witness willing to meaningfully engage
with the media, lawmakers, and the public provides a backdrop for examining the
political and racial divide in this country--one that we must overcome in order
to demand accountability and preserve our precious democracy.
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