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Marine Corps Veteran McGinnis's arm broken for protest resulting in altercation with US Senator Tim Sheehy (cdn.social.linux.pizza)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by CubitOom@infosec.pub to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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A Marine Corps veteran suffered a broken arm as he was dragged out of a hearing in the US Capitol by police and a senator.

Brian McGinnis called out during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing in protest of the US attack on Iran.

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Three Capitol Police officers grabbed McGinnis and attempted to drag him out of the room.

The officers were joined by Senator Tim Sheehy, who joined them in trying to pull him away.

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McGinnis, a Greens Party candidate for a Senate seat in North Carolina, has been charged with resisting arrest and three counts of assaulting a police officer.

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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

[–] TheKaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 minutes ago

Audience member calls Senator a coward and the Senator calls him "Punk". Wtf lmao.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

Bummer how this isn't shocking at all.

Wasn't that long ago we saw a US Senator get beat up by ICE on live tv. A simple GI getting his arm broken is just another Wednesday.

And kudos to that pussy-ass senator for attacking a guy getting mobbed by donut eaters.

Also, vote Green. Both Dems and Republicans support this shitty war, as usual.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 16 points 4 hours ago

Wow i didn't know they had such high definition cameras in 1940 nazi Germany, they really were ahead of their time. /s

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 8 points 6 hours ago

Traitors to the constitution.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 49 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

three counts of assaulting a police officer.

Must have missed it in the video

[–] anthropozaen@feddit.org 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes I watch those american police bodycam videos, and somehow in the end the charges often include "assaulting police officers". Since I've never seen it happen in the videos I always wonder if they just add it to the charge list like sprinkles, because charges stack up (meaning more jail time) and also what is the perpetrator going to do about it?

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

Assault in the legal vernacular basically amounts to any bodily threat or unwanted physical contact. If you pushed their shoulder out of the way that can count as assault. So if the officer wants it throw the book at you, it's not difficult for them to stack shit.

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 9 hours ago

Genuinely no one did anything right in their attempt to remove him from the room. That's actually impressive. We know just punishments will not be meted out without the action of the people.

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That is insane. How many people have to be forcibly dragged out of a government chamber before they reconsider what they are doing?

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

They'll figure it out instantly, if you drag out the right ones.

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

May they all (except McGinnis, of course) get a visit from Negan and Lucille.