Manuel Oliver: 'Lawmakers were lying... you could see these guys joking, laughing, smiling, comparing me with the insurrection. That says a lot about our leaders.'
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Manuel Oliver, the father of a victim of the Parkland school shooting, was arrested on Capitol Hill for shouting at a Republican lawmaker during a hearing on gun regulations. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a survivor of gun violence, tweeted a video of officers detaining Oliver after he interrupted Rep. Pat Fallon , who was arguing that guns are "merely a tool" and shouldn't be banned. Fallon then mockingly equated the disruption with the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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