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Reuters
Reuters
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By Moira Warburton

Parkland parents forcibly removed, arrested at U.S. House hearing on gun control

FILE PHOTO: Manuel Oliver, father of Joaquin Oliver, one of the victims of the Parkland shooting, speaks next to his wife and David Hogg, survivor of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida and founder of the March For Our Lives Movement, during the 'March for Our Lives', one of a series of nationwide protests against gun violence, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 11, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo

The parents of one of the 17 people killed in a 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, were forcibly removed on Thursday from a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on guns, videos showed.

Manuel Oliver was pinned to the ground outside the hearing and arrested by Capitol Hill Police. His wife, Patricia Oliver, was also removed from the hearing by police.

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