Ray McGovern arrested for disorderly conduct (incident during speech by SOS Clinton)

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Clinton’s speech was punctuated once at the beginning when an unidentified elderly man wearing a “Veterans for Peace” T-shirt stood up in the middle of the crowd to turn his back on her, standing silently and staring at the back of the auditorium for several minutes. After not responding when a security officer asked him to sit down, two officers dragged him shouting out of the auditorium.

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Perhaps the most interesting moment of the event in the Jack Morton Auditorium occurred about five minutes into Clinton's speech. A protestor wearing a shirt which read "Veterans for Peace" had been facing the back of the auditorium, where all the news cameras were, standing silently since Clinton's introduction. Two UPD officers approached the man, asking him to leave twice. The man remained silent and did not respond to the UPD officer's request that he leave or be seated. The UPD officers at this point grabbed him by the arm, pulled him to the ground, and dragged him out of the auditorium. The man remained silent the whole time until just before being pulled through the auditorium doors when he screamed, "This is America?"

The protestor was identified by a freelance cameraman as famous peace activist, and former CIA agent, Ray McGovern though no major media outlets, nor WRGW News, have confirmed this.

GW released the following statement on the incident:

"A man, who is not affiliated with the George Washington University, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by the George Washington University Police Department (GWPD) and has been charged with disorderly conduct after disrupting a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on campus. Shortly after the Secretary began speaking, the man stood up from his seat wearing a shirt with a political message blocking the view of guests and media. When asked by a GWPD officer to leave, the man refused. He was escorted by GWPD out of the building and is in the custody of the Metropolitan Police Department."