The father of a child who died in a mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, school interrupted President Biden's Monday event celebrating the passage of a bipartisan gun bill.
Manuel Oliver, who ahead of the event tweeted criticism of it, was escorted out after shouting as Biden was speaking. Oliver's Twitter bio says he is the father of Joaquin Oliver, who was one of the victims of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018.
It's not clear exactly what Oliver said during the event, which was held in the South Lawn of the White House.
"The word CELEBRATION has no space in a society that saw 19 kids massacred just a month ago," Oliver tweeted before the commemoration. "'Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.' Not me, not Joaquin."
Biden paused during his remarks when Oliver's interruption began and attempted to get him to relent before the man was removed.
"Sit down you'll hear what I have to say," Biden said.
"We have one. Let me finish my comment. Let me talk," Biden added, before the event continued after a brief, but rare, interruption on White House grounds.
Hecklers or protestors during a presidential speech are rare due to strict security measures at the White House. A protestor in 2006 interrupted an event with former President George W. Bush and then-Chinese President Hu Jintao, earning her criminal charges.
Manuel Oliver, the father of a child who died during the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, is escorted out of an event on the White House South Lawn after interrupting President Biden's remarks on gun control. (Mark Meredith/Fox News)
