An unidentified person interrupted the State of the Union Thursday shouting, "remember Abbey Gate." The protestor referred to a 2021 suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

Reporting from, ahem, “elsewhere”, identifies the man and states he was arrested.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/heckler-who-shouted-at-biden-during-state-of-the-union-identified-as-gold-star-father/

"Abbey Gate!” Steve Nikoui yelled down at the president. “Second Battalion, First Marines!”

Capitol Police escorted Nikoui, 51, out of the chamber around 10:15 p.m. and took him into custody.

He was charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding Congress, a misdemeanor that typically results in the offender’s release after paying a $50 fine.

Nikoui’s son, Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul’s international airport while trying to process evacuees from the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021."

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Like it or not, it’s news when someone interrupts the SOTU and has to be forcibly removed. And honestly, it’s fine with me if this guy gets air time. It was a terrible thing, and he has a right to be angry. Hopefully, if this does get more coverage, it will be made clear that Biden isn’t the one culpable - it was more trump than him, and more the Taliban than Trump.