‘No one wants to fight for Israel’: Ex-marine gets forcibly removed from US Senate hearing (VIDEO)
A former US Marine protesting the war with Iran was injured during a scuffle with police and a senator on Wednesday after interrupting a Senate hearing on Washington's Capitol Hill and shouting, “No one wants to fight for Israel.”
The protester, Brian McGinnis, a Marine veteran and Green Party candidate in North Carolina’s Senate race, disrupted a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing that was hearing testimony from members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Video from the incident shows police and Senator Tim Sheehy attempting to remove McGinnis from the room as he clung to a doorframe. During the struggle, his right arm appeared to snap, prompting a bystander to shout, “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.
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.”
Despite some opposition and debate in Congress about the military action, the US may be preparing for a prolonged conflict with Iran, according to Politico. The outlet cited an internal document on Thursday as stating that the US Central Command is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, suggesting that the campaign may likely run “through September,” long beyond Trump’s initial four-week timeline.
