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GOP senator joins police in ejecting anti-war protester from Capitol Hill hearing

Sheehy joined Capitol Police in removing a North Carolina Senate candidate who interrupted a hearing to protest the war with Iran.

GOP senator joins police in ejecting anti-war protester from Capitol Hill hearing
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Sen. Tim Sheehy helped Capitol Police remove Brian McGinnis, a North Carolina Senate candidate protesting the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, from a Senate hearing. McGinnis said his arm was broken; police accused him of assaulting officers.

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Montana senator who helped police remove a protester from a Senate hearing

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North Carolina Senate candidate who interrupted a hearing to protest the war with Iran

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ALSO MENTIONED  Mark Elbourno, Green Party official who manages McGinnis’ Senate campaign

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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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