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GOP senator helps Capitol Police remove anti-war protester during hearing

Sheehy said he helped officers remove a protester from an Armed Services subcommittee hearing.

GOP senator helps Capitol Police remove anti-war protester during hearing
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Sen. Tim Sheehy helped Capitol Police remove anti-war protester Brian McGinnis from a Senate hearing. Police said McGinnis and three officers were treated for injuries; McGinnis, a Green Party Senate candidate, faces multiple charges.

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Montana senator who helped Capitol Police remove a protester from a Senate hearing

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North Carolina Senate candidate who protested at the hearing and was arrested

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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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