Brian McGinnis, an Iraq war veteran, firefighter and Green Party Senate candidate, was taken to hospital after his left arm was broken during a confrontation at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing in Washington on Wednesday, after he interrupted proceedings to denounce joint US and Israeli strikes on Iran. The widely circulated footage captured McGinnis in Marine Corps dress blues as Capitol Police tried to remove him from the room and Senator Tim Sheehy, a Montana Republican and former Navy SEAL, joined the struggle moments before a loud snap was heard.
The news came after McGinnis shouted, 'America does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel!' before officers moved in, with the source article saying his arm became wedged in a door frame during the scuffle. What the source does not establish beyond dispute is the exact chain of force that caused the break, and the article itself leaves readers with competing accounts rather than a settled finding.
