A U.S. Capitol Police officer who helped combat again a rioting mob of Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, mentioned the then-president ought to have been arrested the very subsequent day.
“They need to have arrested him on Jan. 7, however I’m not the one doing the investigation,” Harry Dunn mentioned in an interview with CBS News on Thursday. “Daily that goes by, the extra that’s at stake.”
Dunn’s feedback got here simply days after Trump was slapped along with his third, and maybe most damning, indictment. Trump faces 4 felony expenses within the case — together with conspiracy to defraud the USA and conspiracy towards rights — tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he misplaced to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump has pleaded not responsible to the fees.
“True accountability and true justice comes within the type of a responsible verdict,” Dunn added in his CBS Information interview. “So I didn’t anticipate a lot right here, however this can be a vital step to attending to that final vacation spot that I’ve been pounding the pavement for.”
The day of the Capitol assault, Dunn fought off members of the extremist Oath Keepers militia group, who had breached the constructing and sought to achieve entry to Democratic Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s workplace.
Dunn testified concerning the ordeal at an Oath Keepers trial in October.
“I’m not letting you come this fashion,” Dunn had instructed the rioters, in keeping with his testimony. “We’ve got dozens of officers down. They’re taking us out on stretchers. Y’all are fucking us up.”