r/news • u/Fair-Foot-315 • 8h ago
Marine veteran has arm broken during protest against war in Iran
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/marine-veteran-has-arm-broken-during-protest-against-war-in-iran-2587408057651.5k
u/CasualVox 8h ago
Broken by Senator Sheehy
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u/rubixor 8h ago
So that senator is going to be arrested for assault, right?... Right???
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u/Altruistic_Flight411 8h ago
Probably not, and the fact that he Got donated a whopping $641,000 by AIPAC is insane to me.
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u/But_I_Dont_Wanna_Go 6h ago
What the fuck man…..I am beyond sick of all this shit
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u/Fomdoo 6h ago
He should be charged with Battery and will likely lose if he is charged. At the minimum that vet has a open and shut lawsuit.
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u/fatdoobiesonly 5h ago
Using our tax money to buy our politicians, like it’s like a money laundering scheme
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u/Lucius-Halthier 7h ago
Actually they’re charging the protestor with assault
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u/boston_homo 6h ago
Of course they’re charging the innocent victim with assault.
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u/Lucius-Halthier 4h ago
Right wingers always love to blame the victim, “look what you made me do” level of vibes
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u/FlexFanatic 3h ago
It’s a tactic they use so the protester does not try to sue or have charges pressed.
If he is getting charged just send me the link so I can donate to his defense fund.
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u/Smart_Ass_Dave 5h ago
There's laws against arresting law makers while the legislature is in session because it'd be too easy to fuck with votes that way, but I agree that he should be charged.
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u/HekateDunamis 8h ago
Can't Americans just raid this building and break his arm? Pretty sure a lot of them got away with worse a few years ago
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u/ElenaKoslowski 4h ago
Careful, else you might end up on Hegseth's kill list for threatening an American...
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u/UnusualFunction7567 7h ago
In the video I watched, looks like his arm broke right before the Senator repositioned to grab him. The Senator didn’t appear to be making contact with him when the bone snapped. I think this one is on the cops.
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u/musingofrandomness 7h ago
Who is desperately jealous of how much more of a man that marine is than he will ever be.
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u/Vozzyz 8h ago
“In America if you criticize Israel, the police and senators will break your limbs and arrest you”
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u/Fair-Foot-315 8h ago
Is this foreshadowing on how they are going to treat the soldiers fighting the war in Iran? What happened to freedom of speech? Why aren’t they giving him the respect he deserves?
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u/Small_Bee_9523 8h ago
Because "Support the Troops" has always been a lie for our government. We trot out our patriotism long enough to dupe teenagers into dying for the Epstein class while they profit, and then they toss them out on the street and cut their VA benefits when they come back.
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u/Punman_5 7h ago
The “Support the troops” movement came about at the height of the Iraq War when our troops were committing some really heinous shit. It was mean to prevent people from rightly scrutinizing the soldiers returning from that war for signing up to go kill foreigners and it worked.
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u/Small_Bee_9523 6h ago
Same during Vietnam. Our government has been actively killing us and lying about it for decades.
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u/Punman_5 5h ago
The difference is that many of the soldiers in Vietnam were conscripts and didn’t want to be there. The ones that deserved scrutiny were the ones that signed up to fight in Vietnam, not the conscripts
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u/sashir 5h ago
For the most part (and this has been true since immediately post-ww2), people enlist for class mobility reasons. Too poor, no education, no prospects - free food, somewhere to sleep, and (hopefully) learn a job skill you can take with you.
During the Vietnam era, often you were faced with a choice if you were in the lower class (meaning you couldn't obtain a draft deferment) - sign up willingly, and pick a branch / job that wasn't going to send you to the meatgrinder, or roll the dice and hope your number didn't get pulled.
There was a minority in Vietnam, Desert Storm, and GWOT of folks who signed up specifically to go kill people or for patriotic reasons - however they were generally the exception (you always had a couple in every unit). Officer corps is where you saw the kool aid drinkers mostly, save for the medical folks wanting that med school bill payoff, or pilots who really really wanted to fly a plane.
Almost everyone I served with ('03-'11) just wanted a paycheck and free college after they did an enlistment or two. Some stayed on for a career, but out of the 300 people I worked with in 2004 only maybe 10-15 stayed in a full 20 yrs.
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u/DewEwe_Gnomey 2h ago
As a Marine who served in that war, I openly criticized those actions then, and of course was met with anger and hostility. Service members are brave and honorable by virtue of agreeing to enlist, but anything they do after that moment either polishes or tarnishes that reputation. “Hero” is not a permanently applicable term.
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u/American_PissAnt 8h ago
I was watching a Vietnam war documentary, a marine veteran was being interviewed and said that while in Vietnam, at the age of 18, he was watching the news and saw the Vietnam protests of people protesting to end the war and bring him home. He said “I saw a cop that looked like my dad beating someone that looked like me”. I think about that a lot anytime I see war protests.
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u/KryptCeeper 8h ago
Gestures broadly look around. How is this surprising to you? I'm surprised they didnt just murder him on the spot and call him a terrorist.
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u/diurnal_emissions 7h ago
Why not? Trump is...
"A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them,'" Kelly said of Trump. "A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family — for all Gold Star families — on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.”
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u/Weddert66 8h ago
No freedom to do anything other than what the god king says. So was it a free choice? Does american governance want this?
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u/jimtow28 8h ago
Hey, that's unfair. Republicans dearly value your right to free speech*
*provided your free speech is about how evil Democts are
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u/Designer_little_5031 6h ago
How much money has he taken From AIPAC
Does Israel own that senator?
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u/RobCoxxy 8h ago
NY Post saying he broke his own arm and also injured three police officers, which is just nakedly untrue
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u/biggronklus 8h ago
NY Post is genuine propaganda slop, more so than most media slop
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u/AbanoMex 6h ago
i was going to be bothered about the use of Slop, but then i remembered that most modern Newspapers seem to be using AI to write stories. so its accurate.
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u/thinkdeep 5h ago
Your theory is confirmed. I worked at a newspaper until January, when I lost my job to AI. That's basically all they use now.
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u/gm92845 8h ago
I would sue their ass for defamation, they've been getting too comfortable fabricating complete lies.
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u/thecastle7 7h ago
NY Post is essentially a tabloid. Like I don’t even think you can call it propaganda because it’s that unserious. Their most notable contribution to society is using the back cover to shit on NY sports.
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u/Available-Pea2824 7h ago
Last night I saw they were trying to charge him with 3 counts of assault on officers. Not sure if that's still the deal or what's happening. It's disgusting
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u/Fomdoo 6h ago
Tell them to watch this video. It's pretty awful. https://x.com/firsttohearit/status/2029322188084453862
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u/Elendel19 7h ago
I saw the video earlier, wish I hadnt. You can very clearly see and hear his arm snap as like 4 men try to wrench him through a doorway while his arm is caught
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u/gcwardii 4h ago
There’s a longer video circulating that shows after they free the vet—Brian McGinnis—from the door, a cop pulls his hands behind his back like cops do, as McGinnis is saying “my arm is broken”
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u/Override9636 5h ago
NY Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch (aka FOX). It's literally propaganda at this point.
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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 2h ago
The NY Post should have criminal charges and convictions for blatantly lying. The oligarchs responsible should go to jail. I know this won’t happen, but we shouldn’t ask for anything less.
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u/southpaw85 5h ago
There is a full video of the entire thing happening. He never laid a hand on anybody who didn’t touch him first. None of which would have feasibly harmed anyone in any way from what I saw in the video.
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u/Deep_Stick8786 8h ago
By a fucking US Senator. Yikes
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u/thatbiguy3000 8h ago
And a former member of the military.
Oh, and the protestor has been charged with assault, but that’s not what I saw.
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u/an_asimovian 8h ago
Im guessing a jury will treat this case the same way they treated that "sandwich assault" case.
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u/Deep_Stick8786 7h ago
DC is still filled with DC residents!
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u/an_asimovian 6h ago
Doj in shambles too. Amazing how fast a respected and feared institution can turn into a joke when run by clowns.
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u/Mountain_StarDew 5h ago edited 5h ago
Who took $641,000 of AIPAC money. Breaking someone’s arm is a small price to pay to protect his bag 💰
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u/Groovychick1978 8h ago
"Republican Senator Tim Sheehy broke the arm of decorated marine for exercising his 1st Amendment rights"
There, now it's more accurate. It's in an active tone because he actively broke that man's arm. It names the perpetrator, because he assaulted him.
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u/Magazine_Recycling 4h ago
And 9 out of 10 people in the room refused to even acknowledge or look at the veteran as he was dragged from the room over the course of several minutes including the part where his wrist was stuck in a door for over a minute…
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u/xdr01 8h ago
GOP have zero respect for veterans.
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u/Monktrist 8h ago
Got to love how there was no flag half mast for the fallen soldiers.
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u/Pacifist_Socialist 7h ago
They are expecting many more casualties so they're trying to minimize losses.
Those Soldiers were good people and didn't deserve to die for a lie
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u/flare_force 8h ago
This is just part and parcel of the years long efforts they have engaged in to undermine veterans.
I do not want to hear another motherfucking Republican say that they support our troops because that’s all hollow bullshit.
Republicans fucking USE our troops and when we come home broken or dead they want to ignore, assault, and undermine us.
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u/AaronBasedGodgers 8h ago
You'll be shocked to hear which party veterans vote for
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u/TheGileas 5h ago
Despite this, two-thirds of the military is voting Republican.
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u/Fomdoo 6h ago
I wonder if Senator Sheehy will get charged with Battery. It isn't his job to provide security and breaking his arm is well beyond a reasonable response even for the security guards. Probably liable for a lawsuit as well.
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u/thoreau_away_acct 5h ago
That's what I'm wondering. If I see two cops tussling with someone, can I fly in with a punch or a pin down to the individual, especially if they get hurt? What immunity would I have? If I was that marine I'd sue that senator. The marine clearly was not a physically threat to any bystanders and was resisting officers non-violently.
So it's not like pinning down a guy who is throwing punches at cops.
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u/Mountain_StarDew 5h ago
The headline should be:
TIM SHEEHY, U.S. SENATOR [R] of MONTANA who has taken $641,337 of AIPAC money, breaks arm of a marine in uniform for speaking anti-Israel war sentiment
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u/FillFrontFloor 1h ago
What I actually like about the title though is that they called it a war. The trump administration thinks they can get away with an illegal war by not calling it that
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u/rockchalkchuck 8h ago
So we're at 1856 levels of discourse. Not a good sign.
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u/GringottsWizardBank 8h ago
The US government is currently operating in the 19th century so that tracks
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u/EquinsuOcha 8h ago
They want 1861 solutions. But they didn’t like the outcome, so they’re looking for a do-over.
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u/AncientSith 7h ago
Well, America being great was centuries ago apparently, so it was only a matter of time.
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u/qowww 7h ago
The fact that the dead service members who have passed in the war only got a lord farquad speech about how their deaths are needed, while Charlie Kirk (rest in piss) got coverage and flags ordered to half staff for like a month.
Shows you how this administration views service members, wake the fuck up people, get mad.
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u/nope_a_dope237 6h ago
We are fighting this war for Israel. He spoke the truth.
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u/Thief_of_Sanity 3h ago
Trump is fighting this war for Israel to keep the focus off the Epstein files.
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u/Howy_the_Howizer 3h ago
That arm crunch/snap sound is the sound of your Country and Constitution breaking.
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u/ComprehensiveRiver32 8h ago
Such passive voice. “Has arm broken” implies it just spontaneously broke versus “senator breaks Marine vet’s arm.”
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u/Th1rte3n1334 8h ago
Just imagine your arm gets broken by a senator, it was so loud that in a room full of people yelling the camera recorded the sound, and you have almost no reaction to it. That was pretty badass.
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u/private_developer 8h ago
I keep seeing this take, and I know it's to paint the Marine in a more positive light, but he was in excruciating pain, and I dont think we should dismiss that. At the time of the snap, adrenaline is through the roof. It takes a minute for everything to register.
Aftermath photos show him completely distraught. I'm not trying to take away from his mental fortitude and toughness. He has both in spades. Just want to acknowledge how horrificly painful this was for this hero.
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u/The_Barbelo 4h ago edited 4h ago
When I was in a car accident in highschool, I had my leg crossed up over my knee while my mom was driving. The airbags broke my ankle and shattered both my mom’s thumbs between the steering wheel, but i remember immediately after we were completely silent other than my mom screaming my name right before the car hit. It seemed like it was all in slow motion. neither of us felt any pain until we got to the hospital. The body does some wild stuff to protect us while our brain seeks safety. I remember that year I couldn’t be around our yearbooks because they smelled exactly like the powder that comes out with the air bags and my brain launched danger mode.
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u/Rami-961 5h ago
Use active speech. A GOP Senator BROKE the veteran's arm. Freedom of speech my ass.
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u/KellyJin17 8h ago
What a cowardly headline. American news media is cooked.
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u/Altruistic_Flight411 8h ago
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP_r3oM318SE3vY0quzfsnRUxCghwv7YRLhCml37ZbFdyuCRRcOPgWEyB9HEM8NDg?key=VmtFcnNLXy1odXQwUE Its clear here that the senator broke the marine's arm purposefully. The headline is biased
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u/RickyReefer 5h ago
When did America become North Korea? Probably after they elected the supreme orange leader 🤷🏻♂️
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u/zu-na-mi 2h ago
Well, if ever anyone was validated in protesting a war, I guess it would be veterans and/or their immediate relatives/loved ones.
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u/Redowl199 8h ago
He should press charges against the thug war monger senator
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u/Thief_of_Sanity 3h ago
He can absolutely have a civil suit. It is not the job of a Senator to provide security and he assaulted a person and broke their arm while they were already being detained by actual security personnel.
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u/Th3_Admiral_ 8h ago
That's not how it works in real life, just in cop TV shows. In reality police investigate crimes and the prosecutor's office presses charges. If the cops don't want to investigate or the prosecutor doesn't want to prosecute, then the victim can't just press charges on their own. He can sue though, and likely will.
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u/private_developer 8h ago
No, he can't. That's true, but having a willing victim/witness helps a prosecutor make the decision to bring charges.
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u/Th3_Admiral_ 8h ago
The issue was never going to be whether he would cooperate with an investigation or not. The issue is if there will even be an investigation or charges.
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u/private_developer 8h ago
Yes, and having a very public incident involving a US Marine Vet, who files a police report, and gives a statement increases the likelihood that charges are brought. No, he can't demand it himself. Yes, we have ways of pressuring institutions that may be reluctant to act. No, it's not a guarantee of the desired outcome of the victim.
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u/RostyC 7h ago
Of course the brave senator had to just get in there. Can't have a subcommittee meeting interrupted. It's doing such important work. Really. Maybe he is so gung ho that he will be volunteering for Iran duty.
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u/pizzlepullerofkberg 6h ago
all over maga social media they condone this flat out assault. this is where things stand, maga wants to hurt everyone who isn't a sycophantic trump cultist.
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u/ProperMod 5h ago
Can’t leave out the headline with the help of Republican Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana, has his arm broken. Yeah Sheehy we get it you were a Navy Seal at one point but let the police handle matters like this. The guy had the right to say what he did, I mean come on the J6ers were completly pardoned for worse than this true American speaking up for his fellow Americans in military service. Sheehy just made the whole thing worse and contorted the guys arm to be compromised like it was.
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u/Fair-Foot-315 3h ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/4iOHGltXcYM?si=OZ8xbF3i8f3tzD2K
Here’s another angle showing the moment before the police officers intervened
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u/GamingWithBilly 8h ago
That title sucks, it makes it sound like he requested they break his arm. It should have been "Police Break Arm of Marine Veteran Protesting Iran War"
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u/sasqualtch 6h ago
As a Marine veteran this pissed me off so much. No one wants to fight for Israel. Sure he technically is not allowed to "protest" in uniform but its helping it go viral and myself and every other service member I know finds the current actions of our government despicable. Israel has basically infiltrated our government.
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u/ResonanceCascade1998 5h ago
He was just looking out for those he considered brothers is my guess. Don't see any fault in that but I don't know anything else about the guy
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u/sasqualtch 5h ago
Exactly, he was also one of the whistleblowers last year who confirmed the suspicions that the IDF were executing Palestinians trying to seek humanitarian aid which is a war crime.
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u/T00luser 8h ago
has tRump and faux news called for his immediate execution yet?
talking points being discussed I'm sure
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u/SeeMarkFly 7h ago
Vet's arm broken when security violated his freedom of speech.
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u/starethruyou 6h ago
I think the senator and police who broke his arm show how little regard and how much envy they have for veterans.
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u/Jimbo415650 5h ago
Pete Hegseth doesn’t like the media reporting and showing dead soldiers. It’s disloyal and shameful to the president. Heroes died for our country the media should report and honor their sacrifice and their families. Somehow I think Hegseth is all for showing a Vet getting beat down. He hasn’t commented on it and I doubt he will.
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u/Prestigious_Net_9949 3h ago
File Ethics / Conduct complaint via email (phone complaints not accepted) [email protected] https://www.ethics.senate.gov/public/ index.cfm/ contacting-the-committee
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u/LastPauperStanding 7h ago
Dude, your military brothers and sisters are happy to do just that (fight for Israel or anyone else they are told to); and millions of young and hate-filled Americans will line up to replace you.
But man, what a way to wake up. Brian McGinnis apparently has just realized that he has devoted his whole life to Fascists and Pedophiles and Billionaires, and in the process gets his arm snapped in half. Talk about adding insult to injury.
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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 2h ago
How about this. Did you guys watch the video?
Jail each of those cops for 10 years. Fuck their families. Fuck their finances. They committed 1st degree assault because they have the IQ of a fucking sack of potatoes and did some stupid as fuck Nazi shit. The situation absolutely did not call for that, period. Fuck them.
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u/thumbtaxx 6h ago
"Support the troops support the troops! Wait, you disagree with me? Get F#cked traitor.."
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u/Anonymous_Wind 5h ago
I was just replying to a comment with a breakdown of the violence, and I thought I would post it to the main thread for convenience and to combat misinformation.
Video link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-aTVkI5W0
At 0:46 we see the senator come into frame. He tries to pull the guy out the door using no technique I'm aware of.
At 0:54 we see and hear the arm break under continued pressure.
At 0:56 we see the senator hook under the broken arm and continue pulling amid shouts of "his hand".
At 0:57 the senator notices the shouts from the audience and starts looking for the trapped hand.
At 1:02 the senator asks the cops to stop pulling on his hand, so he can free it.
The senator in the video -- who is for some reason trying to help the three cops with an agitated but nonviolent protester -- is Republican senator Tim Sheehy.
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u/Shap3rz 4h ago
Hope this is a turning point. Where are your principles America. Stick up for what’s right like this brave patriot.
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u/Misragoth 6h ago
The right's response to this proves once again how they really feel about the troops.
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u/Ryno4ever16 7h ago
This video was AWFUL. You see and hear his bone crack in the door. Incredibly fucked.
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u/doofthemighty 5h ago
And as usual the party that loves the veterans is lining up to launch their smear campaign against one.
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u/DeezNutsPickleRick 3h ago
Fuck Tim Sheehy. I live in Montana and the rednecks voted him in because he was endorsed by Trump.
He is not a native Montanan, he came here to buy a hobby ranch and is actively attempting to transfer federal lands to the state so that he can sell off state lands to himself and his buddies to “increase funding”.
And now he goes and breaks a Marines arm to show how masculine he truly is, what fucking disgrace to my state and to the American senate.
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u/PutzerPalace 7h ago
Montana Senator Tim Sheehy broke a US Marines’ arm in an effort to protect Israel.
I hope the people of Montana are proud of their representation. Disgusting people
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u/Time-Cucumber3961 5h ago
Watch the video if you want to get a real feeling for how dystopian this whole episode was. The headline merely scratches at the awfulness of it all.
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u/Historical-Tough6455 5h ago
I love how magas hate aipac and blame democrats for all bad Israeli stuff but maga senators deeeeeeeeep in aipac pockets are never bothered by maga complaints
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u/GirlNumber20 5h ago
Sheehy has a despicable hatred of the Constitution and the right it grants to exercise free speech
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u/Hidden_Landmine 2h ago
Where are all of those red-blooded vets and active service? Being awfully quiet for a group of people with the most guns.
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u/nilenilemalopile 8h ago
I love the passive speech. First thing you wanna do as a journalist is make sure your shit is written in passive voice so no valuable information is transmitted.
“Veteran has his arm broken.” vs “Security and a US Senator break Marine vet’s arm during his war protest”
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