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A Black police officer said Capitol rioters called him the n-word. Tucker Carlson said he’s an angry activist.

July 22, 2021 at 4:47 a.m. EDT
U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, left, and D.C. police officer Michael Fanone depart the U.S. Capitol after meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on June 25. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images).
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U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn said the attacks that Black law enforcement agents endured on Jan. 6 were not just physical, but verbal.

In a March interview with The Washington Post, Dunn said he was called the n-word more than a dozen times that day in January. Black police officers, he said, “were fighting a different fight” as a throng of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol grounds and building — some violently attacking police officers standing in their way.