Republican senator joined Capitol Police as they violently ejected an anti-war protester and U.S. Marine veteran from an Armed Services subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, appearing to break his arm as the group tried to wrestle him out of the chamber.
Video of the incident shows Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, rushing over to help police as they try to tug and push the protester out of the chamber, as the protester yells, “no one wants to fight for Israel.” The protester appears to be wearing a U.S. Marine Corps dress uniform.
The protester, Green Party candidate Brian McGinnis, has his hand stuck in the door frame, with his arm hooked around the adjacent open door panel as several police try to force him out of the room. Sheehy lifts up McGinnis’s leg as police officers grab his torso and tug.
As Sheehy is moving over to dislodge the protester’s hand and tug on his arm, McGinnis’s forearm can be seen appearing to snap in half. There is a loud cracking sound, and bystanders begin to yell at the police to stop. Shortly after, officers let up on their tugging, and begin to work to dislodge McGinnis’s hand, as Sheehy returns to the front of the room.
“The senator broke his hand. A sitting U.S. senator just broke the hand of a Marine,” one person yells. One bystander asks McGinnis, “is your hand ok?”
"No it’s not,” McGinnis responds. McGinnis is running for Senate in North Carolina, and is a Marine who fought in Iraq, according to his campaign website.
Police arrested McGinnis and have charged him with three counts of assault on a police officer, and three counts of resisting arrest and crowding, obstructing, and incommoding for his demonstration.
In a statement posted on McGinnis’s X account, his family expressed gratitude for the well wishes. “We are taking a necessary step back from the public eye to allow him to focus fully on his recovery in private,” the statement said.
The protest occurred during a hearing by the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, held to hear testimony from military officials on the readiness of various military branches for combat. The hearing was scheduled before the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran on February 28.
“America does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel,” McGinnis said as he protested the hearing. “This is wrong.”
Sheehy called McGinnis an “unhinged protester,” and claimed on social media that he was trying to “help out and deescalate the situation,” ignoring that he helped lift McGinnis off the ground, potentially helping to break his arm.
“This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one,” Sheehy said, though McGinnis was merely protesting the hearing.
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How long have you been paying attention, ten minutes?
“Zionists will conflate anti-war sentiment and antisemitism” is one of the most obviously true statements ever.
Here’s an example from 3 days ago.
Here’s one from yesterday
Here’s another from yesterday
And one more
Will you be admitting you were wrong, or will you continue gaslighting on behalf of a fascist apartheid regime like a useful idiot?
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And you’re complaining about strawmen??
I didn’t call YOU a fascist, I correctly characterized the apartheid regime you’re caping for as fascist.
As for the links, I didn’t get them by “reading publications”, they were all on the first page of a duckduckgo search for “resistance to Iran war is antisemitic”. Took me a couple seconds including the page loading abnormally slowly.
Says the world class hypocrite who came at the other commenter hard for a nonexistent strawman argument 🙄
Again you have no idea what was meant and I have zero reason to explain myself. I remember your hateful ass from previous fun times. Blocked.
If so, you didn’t express yourself clearly. That’s on you.
Yeah, because it’s much more fun to blather a bunch of nonsense and then claim unfairness when others call you on it 🙄
Back at you 🤷
Oh no! Whatever will I do without your nonsense?! Woe is me!
And how would you know? It’s not like you’ve shown a capacity to not be ludicrously wrong about everything in any of our exchanges 🤷
I checked your history comments and half of them are calling people antisemites.
Hey genius, you saw comments to a single person who literally proved themselves to be anti-semitic. Learn to read.
I love lazy sleuths who think 15 seconds makes them some expert on my life. lol
Weird how this modlog page took 15 seconds to pull up also and mods seem to agree that fuck is anti-semitic.
I cannot actually remember the last time I called anyone anti-semitic on here and would only have done so if they made a comment about “the Jews”. So out of line, I know. Huge zionist, yep.
Thanks for your “help”