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Screaming ex-Marine who heckled US Senator and was ejected from congressional hearing BROKE HIS ARM during violent brawl

Sheehy said he joined officers to de-escalate the confrontation, while McGinnis's party condemned his intervention.

Screaming ex-Marine who heckled US Senator and was ejected from congressional hearing BROKE HIS ARM during violent brawl
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Brian McGinnis, a North Carolina Senate candidate and former Marine, broke his arm as officers removed him from a Senate hearing where he protested military action in Iran. Sen. Tim Sheehy helped officers, while accounts differed over the confrontation and McGinnis faced criminal charges.

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Montana senator who joined officers in removing McGinnis from the hearing

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North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate who protested at the hearing and was removed by police

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ALSO MENTIONED  Kaila Fitzgerald, North Carolina Green Party spokeswoman; Mark Elbourno, McGinnis's campaign manager

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Tim Sheehy Joins Police in Removing Brian McGinnis From Hearing

Outlets agree that Tim Sheehy joined Capitol Police in removing Brian McGinnis from a Senate hearing during McGinnis’s anti-war protest. Left-leaning outlets foreground the force used and McGinnis’s reported arm injury, raising scrutiny of Sheehy’s role. Center outlets mostly recount the removal and competing accounts of the injury, with some scrutiny of a senator physically intervening. Right-leaning outlets stress Sheehy’s assistance to police and McGinnis’s resistance, often presenting the intervention as de-escalation.

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