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Posted: 2022-10-31T21:41:51Z | Updated: 2022-11-03T18:12:38Z

A far-right, pro-Donald Trump militia that claims its members helped defend the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was, in fact, actually attacking it, U.S. Capitol Police officers testified Monday.

Officer Harry Dunn told jurors in a federal courtroom that he had to repel members of the Oath Keepers that day as he guarded the entry to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s office.

They tried to get past me, and I stopped them. Dunn said under cross-examination from the Oath Keepers attorneys. They didnt. I did.

Im not letting you come this way, Dunn, who was armed with an M4 rifle, recalled saying to the group. We have dozens of officers down. Theyre taking us out on stretchers. Yall are fucking us up.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is on trial on charges of seditious conspiracy against the United States, along with four others linked to the extremist group.