Steven Nikoui, the daddy a Marine killed throughout the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan, was arrested Thursday night for shouting from a Home gallery at President Biden throughout his State of the Union tackle.
Nikoui, 51, was arrested for disrupting Biden’s speech round 10:15 p.m., U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) confirmed.
“Our officers warned him to cease and when he didn’t, the person was faraway from the Home Galleries,” USCP stated in an announcement.
He was arrested for crowding, obstructing or incommoding, stated USCP, which added that “disrupting the Congress and demonstrating within the Congressional Buildings is illegitimate.”
Nikoui was invited to attend the annual tackle by Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), who served within the Military for greater than 12 years. Whereas deployed in Afghanistan, Mast labored as a bomb disposal skilled, the place he misplaced each his legs in an explosion, his congressional web site stated.
Mast posted online ahead of the tackle, saying he was “honored” to have Nikoui as his visitor.
“He’s the daddy of Marine Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, who was KIA attributable to Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Mast stated on-line. “Joe Biden might attempt to flip the web page on Afghanistan after his incompetence price American lives, however NOT ON MY WATCH.”
Throughout Biden’s speech, Nikoui might be heard yelling “Abbey Gate.”
A bomb on the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport in Kabul went off on Aug. 26, 2021, killing 13 U.S. service members, together with Kareem Nikoui, and not less than 170 Afghan civilians.
The blast was carried out by a single suicide bomber and claimed by ISIS in Khorasan within the ultimate chaotic days of the US’ evacuation from Afghanistan. Biden and his administration have obtained heavy criticism over the withdrawal.
Following Nikoui’s arrest, Mast called out Biden.
“He was arrested as a result of he cried out to Joe Biden to recollect his son,” Mast wrote. “Joe Biden has by no means honored these killed on the Abby Gate and nonetheless hails the catastrophic withdrawal as a hit!”
Final August, on the two-year anniversary of the explosion, Biden released a statement to mourn the lives of the service members and civilians who had been killed within the “horrific terrorist assault.”
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