Published: March 5, 2026 1:38 am
Author: RT
A scuffle broke out on Capitol Hill involving a former Marine, Republican senator, and police
An anti-Iran war protester was injured in a scuffle with a US senator and police after he interrupted a Senate hearing at Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
Brian McGinnis, a Green Party candidate in a North Carolina senatorial race and former US Marine, shouted slogans in the middle of a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing featuring testimony from members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
As three police officers and Senator Tim Sheehy attempted to remove McGinnis from the room, he grabbed the door and yelled, “No one wants to fight for Israel.”
Video of the incident shows McGinnis’ right arm snapping, while a bystander is heard screaming, “His hand, his hand!” Another person later asked McGinnis, “Is your hand okay?” He replied, “No, it’s not.”
Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, said he saw police dealing with “an unhinged protester” and decided to intervene “to help out and deescalate the situation.”
“This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one,” the senator wrote on X.
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Capitol Police said McGinnis was “violently resisting and fighting our officers’ attempts to remove him from the room.”
Police added that McGinnis faces three counts of assaulting a police officer and three counts of “resisting arrest and crowding, obstructing, and incommoding for the unlawful demonstration.”
