3 police officers injured in scuffle at US Capitol Hill

A protester and three US Capitol Police officers were treated for injuries in a Senate office building on Wednesday after the protester resisted arrest for disruptive behaviour and grabbed onto a doorway as the officers and a Republican senator tried to drag him out of the room.

The protester, Brian C McGinnis of North Carolina, was arrested and faces three counts of assaulting a police officer and three counts of resisting arrest and unlawful demonstration, the Capitol Police said in a statement.

“This afternoon, an unruly man who started to illegally protest during a hearing put everyone in a dangerous position by violently resisting and fighting our officer’s attempts to remove him from the room,” Capitol Police said in a statement.

Multiple videos show that McGinnis stood up and started shouting during the Senate Armed Services hearing, and that police officers immediately grabbed him and tried to remove him from the room.