India, March 6 -- 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 sai...