Veteran whose arm was broken in interaction with Capitol Police facing multiple charges of assault

Published March 5, 2026 2:00pm ET



Brian McGinnis, a Green Party candidate for Senate in North Carolina, is now facing multiple assault charges after he interrupted a Senate hearing in an anti-war protest on Wednesday.

McGinnis, 44 and a U.S. Marine veteran, is now facing seven charges for his protest: three counts of assault on a police officer, three counts of resisting arrest, and crowding, obstructing, and incommoding, the U.S. Capitol Police told the Washington Examiner. Three Capitol police officers sustained injuries and McGinnis had his arm broken in the confrontation.

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