Mad McKinney D-GA, Punches Cop

“http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=77991

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga. 4th) Allegedly Punches Cop

Web Editor: Michael King

According to sources on Capitol Hill, U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) punched a Capitol police officer on Wednesday afternoon after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector.

Members of Congress are not required to pass through metal detectors.

Sources say that the officer was at a position in the Longworth House Office Building, and did not recognize McKinney, nor saw her credentials as she went around the metal detector.

The officer called out, “Ma’am, Ma’am,” and walked after her in an attempt to stop her. When he caught McKinney, he grabbed her by the arm.

Witnesses say McKinney pulled her arm away, and with her cell phone in hand, punched the officer in the chest.

McKinney’s office has not responded to requests for comment.

According to the Drudge Report, the entire incident is on tape.

Drudge continues, "The cop is pressing charges, and the USCP (United States Capitol Police) are waiting until Congress adjurns to arrest her, a source claims."”

“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189553,00.html

Another source.

What a clown.
Here the Dems are trying to prove how tough on terror (*snicker*) they are and she pulls this stunt of hitting a cop trying to do his job.
LMAO!”

“We just make um we don't abide um. Are we not god-we are congress.c-o-n-g.....”

“point?”

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New Hair
Looks like a terrorist to me, LOL!
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“Gotta lova a U.S. Congresswoman wearing African tribal dress.”

“Nothing brings out the racists like an uppity black woman.”

“Racist? Oh, you mean nationalists?”

“LOL @ the little race baiter.
The vile man's hero messed up.”

“Nothing brings out the racist-accusers like mentioning Africa.”

“That crazy woman refuses to wear her ID pin and beats on a security guard because he didn't know her on sight with that new wild hairdo.
Racist indeed, LOL!!!!”

““Racist? Oh, you mean nationalists?”
-Sarge


Yeah. I remember your outrage over this:

Bush, Irish leader celebrate St. Patrick's Day

Bush receives traditional bowl of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day”

“Violin - I didn't see that St. Patrick's Day story on trailtalk - but when I heard it on the radio I was equally turned off by it. Are you questioning my intentions? Maybe we shouldn't take you at your word either.”

“Note: Now Violin is questioning whether or not I'm a nationalist. I'm sure he'd accuse me of being one if it fit his argument.”

“I would think the little race baiter would be all up in arms from MS McKinney's hate of Jews. Of course Jew Hateing is AOK in Far Leftist circles.
She also likes money from terrorists. She's the one that stepped up and asked to have the blood money New York turned down after 9/11.
She also stated Bush and the Jews knew about 9/11 before it happened.

Real nice person here.
Violin's kind of Democrat.
LOL”

“Does the left wear blue and the right gray or...?”

“StoveStomper - How many Jews can you count among your neighbors? Google up what you can find about East Brunswick New Jersey before you retract your filth.”

“Unrelenting.....”

“Of course Jew Hateing is AOK in Far Leftist circles. You say some stupid things sometimes.... but this?

But McKinney is crazy - I know someone who used to work for her on the Hill.
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“Heck, violin, even your buddies over on the Loony Democratic Underground have backed away from McKinney here. That thread is a hoot.
They even recognize her hate of Jews and some of them are very displeased with her actions toward the guard.”

“There are none so blind as those that will not see.”

“I don't think he's actually supported her actions in any way.”

“You're a real stand up guy StoveStomper.”

“I wonder if the guy has a brain tumor that is affecting his hate-speech center.”

“Thanks, violin. ;-)”

“It's pretty clear why God destroyed his house.”

“You guys stop upsetting Violin! This incident involved a DEMOCRAT, so it's ok, just overlook it and move along. Go on now, move along, move along.
last edited: 3/30/06 11:00:55 AM”

“He just seems to have pointed out that certain people were all over this like a rash.”

“LMAO @ The Vile Man


You are such a sore loser.”

“Yea, racist Democrats are AOK in the Vile Man's book.”

“Terrorist have been reading TT and are affraid to attack.”

“Check out the nutjob website Vileman's picture comes from:

http://www.villonius.com”

“"Yea, racist Democrats are AOK in the Vile Man's book."

Most racist southern Democrats became Republicans after civil rights legislation in the '60s.”

“LOL

Even McKinney's staff has realized she stepped in it big time.
Her office issued a halfa$$ed apology.

The video tape must be damming. Wish we could see it. I bet it never makes the light of day.”

“wow violin, you're not having a good day, eh?”

“You'd think the Axis of Idiots would be happy that somebody is hitting union folks.”

“She's a hoodlum. Don't believe me? Watch this video from her website.

http://www.house.gov/mckinney/ABvideo2.mov

Remember folks ... U.S. Congresswoman. Wow!!”

“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189940,00.html

Lawmakers Bicker Over Rep. McKinney's Capitol Police Incident
Friday, March 31, 2006

WASHINGTON — Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had a physical altercation with a police officer, is speaking out about the episode after saying she regretted the incident.

But she has refused to apologize in a statement and a brief on-camera interview.

The six-term congresswoman apparently struck a Capitol Police officer when he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a metal detector. Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. The officer apparently did not recognize McKinney, she said in a statement.

Asked on-camera Thursday by WSB-TV of Atlanta whether she intended to apologize, McKinney refused to comment. A news conference scheduled for Friday morning was canceled. She issued a statement late Wednesday saying she regretted the confrontation.
"I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, and I appreciate the work that they do. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past and I continue to support them now," she said in the statement on her Web site.

Capitol Police were considering Thursday whether to ask the U.S. Attorney's office to file charges against McKinney, a Democrat who represents Atlanta suburbs that make up one of Georgia's two black-majority districts.

Democrats and Republicans, meanwhile, engaged in a rhetorical scuffle over the incident.

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday labeled it "a mistake, an unfortunate lack of recognition of a member of Congress." She added that the police officer was not at fault.

"I would not make a big deal of this," said Pelosi, D-Calif.

Ron Bonjean, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., responded: "How many officers would have to be punched before it becomes a big deal?"

The dustup is the latest in a series of tangles for the roughly 1,200-officer Capitol Police department.

The department faces a difficult task — protecting 535 members of Congress and the vast Capitol complex in an atmosphere thick with politics and privilege.

The safety of its members became a sensitive issue after a gunman in 1998 killed two officers outside the office of then-Republican Whip Tom DeLay of Texas.

More recently, police obeyed an order by an angry House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., to remove Democrats from a hearing room. Thomas later tearfully apologized on the House floor.

This year, during President Bush's State of the Union address, police drew criticism for first kicking antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan out of the House gallery, and then for evicting the wife of Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla.”

“Thug.”

“http://www.wsbtv.com/news/8343403/detail.html

McKinney Cancels News Conference

POSTED: 4:21 pm EST March 29, 2006
UPDATED: 2:19 pm EST March 31, 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Capitol Hill police plan to issue an arrest warrant for Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.).
The warrant is related to the incident Wednesday when McKinney allegedly slapped a Capitol Hill police officer.

Charges could range from assault on a police officer, which is a felony carrying a possible five year prison term, to simple assault, which is a misdeamenor.
McKinney has canceled a news conference that she had scheduled for this morning to discuss the incident.

McKinney issued a statement yesterday saying she "deeply regrets" the confrontation with the police officer.

.......snip........

Asked on-camera Thursday by Channel 2 Action News whether she intended to apologize, McKinney refused to comment.

"I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, and I appreciate the work that they do. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past and I continue to support them now," she said in the statement on her Web site.

Democrats and Republicans, meanwhile, engaged in a rhetorical scuffle over the incident.

....snip.....

Merle Black, a professor of politics at Emory University, says that while the scuffle was rare for an elected politician, it's unlikely to cost McKinney more than a few votes. Black says McKinney is in damage control -- cutting her losses by not insisting on right or wrong.”

“My vote is a 5 year prison term. If I punched one of them, I'd expect them to shoot. Congressmen are not above the law.”

“She can share a cell with DeLay.”

“What a bunch of sissys.”

“As a member of congres she should recognize and respect the necessity of the security measures taken to protect people like her! Whether she be black, white, purple, green, spotted, striped, left, right or down the centre-line, it does not matter, she over-reacted, she acted like a buffoon, and she should at least admit as much and move on.

Does congress really need to waste it's time now debating this idiotic incident?”

“The problem with just "admitting a mistake" and moving on is that she's had like 5 incidences of this in the past. She's a thug.”

“Does congress really need to waste it's time now debating this idiotic incident?”


Why not. If this was done by a Republican, the left would be in the streets protesting.
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“She admitted to not wearing the lapel pin given to congresscriters to make them easier to identify.

She's also mentioned being treated differently by the police than white congressmen in the past, so if that's true, I can understand the basis of her anger, but not her action.”

“The race card defense. I'm not surprised.”

“Yeah, I'm not sure how genuine her remarks to that effect are, trailkicker67.”