{"id":68159,"date":"2026-03-05T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/watch-navy-seal-turned-senator-tackles-unhinged-protester-during-chaotic-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:22:42","slug":"watch-navy-seal-turned-senator-tackles-unhinged-protester-during-chaotic-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/watch-navy-seal-turned-senator-tackles-unhinged-protester-during-chaotic-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Navy SEAL-turned-senator tackles ‘unhinged’ protester during chaotic hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chaos erupted during a Senate hearing<\/a> Wednesday when Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., jumped in to help Capitol Police remove a protester \u2014 an encounter that may have left the man injured.<\/p>\n

Video of the incident showed Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL,<\/a> stepping in as officers struggled to remove Brian McGinnis, a Marine Corps veteran running as a Green Party candidate for Senate in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Sheehy said in a statement that “Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protester from the Armed Services hearing.”<\/p>\n

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“He was fighting back. I decided to help out and deescalate the situation,” he said. “This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one. I hope he gets the help he needs without causing further violence.”<\/p>\n

Before the scuffle, McGinnis stood up during a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on the Current Readiness of the Joint Force hearing and shouted, “America does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel.”<\/p>\n

Police immediately moved to remove him from the hearing room, with two officers<\/a> attempting to corral McGinnis. After a struggle, they got him to the exit. That’s where Sheehy stepped in.<\/p>\n

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McGinnis grabbed the door and held on, wedging his arm between the door and its frame. As officers and Sheehy pushed to get him to let go, a loud cracking sound could be heard in the video. It was not immediately clear whether his arm was broken during the struggle.<\/p>\n

Capitol Police said in a statement that “an unruly man who started to illegally protest during a hearing put everyone in a dangerous position by violently resisting and fighting our officers\u2019 attempts to remove him from the room.”<\/p>\n

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Police said three officers were treated for injuries after working to remove McGinnis. They added that he “got his own arm stuck in a door to resist our officers and force his way back into the hearing room” and was also treated.<\/p>\n

McGinnis faces three counts of assault on a police officer, three counts of resisting arrest, and a charge of crowding, obstructing and incommoding related to the unlawful demonstration.<\/p>\n

“Protests are not allowed inside the congressional buildings<\/a>,” Capitol Police said. “There are plenty of other spots on Capitol Grounds, outside, where demonstrations are allowed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chaos erupted during a Senate hearing Wednesday when Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., jumped in to help Capitol Police remove a protester \u2014 an encounter that may have left the man injured. Video of the incident showed Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, stepping in as officers struggled to remove Brian McGinnis, a Marine Corps veteran running … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}