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"Lunatic behavior": Marine vet protesting Iran war appears to snap a bone during struggle with GOP senator

Sheehy joined Capitol Police in removing a protester from a Senate hearing and later called him “unhinged.”

"Lunatic behavior": Marine vet protesting Iran war appears to snap a bone during struggle with GOP senator
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At a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing, Sen. Tim Sheehy grabbed Marine veteran and Senate candidate Brian McGinnis as Capitol Police tried to remove him during an anti-war protest. McGinnis was treated for an injury, but police did not specify its nature and the video did not establish who caused it.

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Senator who intervened as police removed McGinnis

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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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