Posted on 03/29/2006 7:38:16 PM PST by mhking
The office of Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-4th Ga.), issued a response on Wednesday evening to reports of her punching a Capitol police officer earlier in the day.
"Earlier today I had an unfortunate confrontation with a Capitol Hill Police Officer. It is traditional protocol that Capitol Hill Police Officers secure 535 Members of Congress, including 100 Senators. It is the expectation of most Members of Congress that Capitol Hill Police officers know who they are. I was urgently trying to get to an important meeting on time to fulfill my obligations to my constituents. Unfortunately, the Police Officer did not recognize me as a Member of Congress and a confrontation ensued. I did not have on my Congressional pin but showed the Police Officer my Congressional ID.
"I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, that of thousands of others, and I appreciate the work that they do. I deeply regret that the incident occurred. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past and I continue to support them now."
Would you believe that I just posted this same gif on another thread about her? LOL, it must be the only one of her!
"I was urgently trying to get to an important meeting on time to fulfill my obligations to my constituents"
...so I punched him.
Okayyyyyy...thanks for clearing that up.
"In August 1993, during her first term in office, a Capitol Hill police officer tried to prevent her from bypassing a metal detector, as members of Congress are allowed to do. For years afterward, The Hill reports, the Capitol Police pinned a picture of McKinney to an office wall, warning officers to learn her face because she refuses to wear her member's pin."
http://www.slate.com/?id=2064530
Here's the real statement:
The office of Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.), issued a response on Wednesday evening to reports of her punching a Capitol police officer earlier in the day: "Earlier today I had an unfortunate confrontation with a space creature that had assumed the form of a Capitol Hill Police Officer. I feared I would be abducted. Naturally, I fought for my life. Now, people are saying it really was a cop. Well, I’m sorry, but I wasn’t just gonna stand there and let myself be probed. As a person-of-color, I feel I have already suffered enough. It’s time that we close out the Jim-Crow era and ensure that reparations are paid to every African American.”
read more at...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
She is. She went to school on the short bus!
I have the longer statement, but couldn't confirm that it came from McKinney's office. It was sent to me from several places, none of which I could positively say were from her people (though personally, I don't doubt it; I have to cover myself though).
"Counseled" sounds like government speak or code for giving someone a "Lewinsky".
One of my many duties is to oversee a security operation for an industrial facility of about 600 employees. When I first took over the job, the guard had no effective means to check IDs or stop traffic. He was just expected to wave in all the employees because he "knew everybody".
Well, after observing operations for about an hour, it because clear that he was just waving in everybody. When I asked why, he said that he did not have time to recognize each person, and by the time he tried to stop anybody, they were already past him. I could have replaced him with a mechanical dummy with a waving arm and gotten just as much security.
I spent a couple of bucks and bought a card reader system and lift arm for the front gate. Now it was possible for the guard to check ID on each vehicle prior to opening the gate. In other words, it made it possible for him to do his job.
Now came the hard part. Now I had to convince 600 employees that they now had to stop and have their IDs checked, after they had been blowing through the front gate for the past 10 years. It took a lot of yelling and screaming, and I had to replace the wooden gate about 20 times, but eventually I got compliance. I had to transfer my normal daytime security crew to another site for a month, but eventually everybody accepted the new system.
But every now and then I get some damn VIP who insists on having a special arrangement so they don't have to produce the ID badge. As soon as this happens, things start falling apart again, because the guard starts "recognizing" his regulars and punching the gate to speed things up. So I have to fight to good fight, and tell people ten steps above my pay grade that they have to follow the rules, just like the little people. I gotta tell you, that makes for some pretty uncomfortable conversations.
I can only imagine what the Capitol Police have to go through, with 535 Prima Donnas running around, and that's before you even get to the AHs who populate their staffs. My heart really goes out to those guys.
I you have one rule for everybody, you have a working system. If you have five different rules for five different classes of people, you got nuthin. But if anything every happened, and security broke down on Capitol Hill, you just know it would be the idiots like Cynthia McKinney bellowing the loudest about "How could this have happened!?!"
Maybe its on Mars with the US flag she thought Neil Armstrong planted there ?
It's so offay to be wearin' the pin of the Congressional slave masters. Reparations Now!!
Just so I understand, this brain dead rep thinks every Cap Police Officer must be able to recognize 635 people who are walking around detectors designed to protect them.
Can anyone here recognize 635 people correctly everytime ever in their whole life?
I certainly can't.
Can You?
This cop did his job and should be commended for trying to protect the very moron that assualted him.
errr.... Read #44 again, it's a knockoff of what you posted...
Pretty funny too....
Apparently one of the capital hill police mistook ms cmac for a terrorist. Or did he somehow recognize a wolf pretending to be a sheep?
You're thinking of the (dis)Honorable Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). Rep. McKinney may be arrogant and foolish, but I doubt she is in the same league with Sheila Jackson Lee for utter stupidity.
Translation ... she knows she's caught on video tape punching a cop and is in trouble
Cop should have maced her. Who knew she wasn't a looney trying to do damage. All she has to do is wear a little pin and she can't do taht?
$100 says that was after the bitch punched him.
It's a true statement but it's of no value except to confuse the idiot liberals who won't understand they've been had by her BS. It's there to make it sould like it was the officer's fault.
Can you identify him or do they all white police officers look alike to you Congresswoman Sweetie Cups?
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