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Standing My Ground
A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th
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- $279.00
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- $279.00
Descripción editorial
New York Times Bestseller
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, and “a must-read for those care about our nation’s future” (Congressman Eric Swalwell).
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 is “a powerful, patriotic tale – told with striking moral clarity” (Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi) that 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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Dunn pulls too many punches in this underwhelming account of his experiences as a member of the Capitol Police during and after the attempted Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington, D.C. He alternates between visceral accounts of holding rioters back from the Capitol—which included his being called the n-word for the first time by a protester—with reflections on his childhood in suburban Maryland and his adolescent hopes for a pro football career. Following a suggestion from a customer at his car rental job, Dunn joined the Capitol's police force in 2008, rising to the rank of private first class by 2011. That training, Dunn explains, put him in good shape to handle the events of January 6. Unfortunately, when he addresses the security failures that enabled the event, Dunn descends into foggy vagueness, contending on the one hand that he was let down by his bosses, while on the other suggesting that police chief Steven Sund, who resigned at the behest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was treated unfairly. Elsewhere, Dunn stumbles in his attempt to frame the Capitol riot as a collective "trauma." This well-intentioned effort comes up short.