Eugene Goodman Is Our Accidental Captain America

The Capitol police officer shouldn’t have almost lost his life to be honored

Photo illustration; image sources: Pool, Tayfun Coskun/Getty Images, “Captain America: The First Avenger”/Marvel Entertainment

Eugene Goodman saved America. That’s not an exaggeration.

The Capitol Hill officer put his life on the line by weaponizing a White mob’s racism against them. He knew that his Blackness would be the only thing White supremacists…