Capitol cop who fended off Jan. 6 rioters eyes congressional seat: report

A Capitol cop who fended off Jan. 6 insurrections has his eyes on a newly available congressional seat.

The eyes come in emoji form in a Thursday night tweet from Harry Dunn, who testified to the Jan. 6 select committee about the harrowing encounter he blames on former president Donald Trump.

Dunn shared a Politico article announcing Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) would not run for a 10th term, with the message "I see there is going to be an open Congressional seat in Maryland."

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Axios received confirmation from Dunn that the eyes emoji implicate a considered run.

Further proof comes in the editorial Dunn published with Time, detailing his beliefs on the state of government in a post-insurrection America.

"The America we live in today is not the America we inherited from our founders. It’s the one we built by voting, by protesting, by agitating, by demanding, by being arrested, by getting into “some good trouble, necessary trouble,” as civil rights icon, former member of Congress, and my hero, John Lewis, would say," Dunn writes.

"We got these rights by fighting, not on some faraway battlefield but right here at home."

Dunn made national headlines when he detailed his encounters with Jan. 6 rioters who called him the n-word and affirmed he required counseling for the trauma he suffered.

In the editorial, Dunn also clarifies another piece of testimony he gave.

"There was an attack carried out on January 6th, and a hitman sent them," Dunn testified in 2021. This week, he clarified, "The hitman was Donald Trump, and he needs to answer for his crime."