Posted on 03/31/2006 8:54:36 AM PST by MikeA
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Capitol Hill police plan to issue an arrest warrant today 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Capitol police need to release the video footage of her attack on the officer.
She is looking for the real killer or killers........
Breach of the Peace
all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
http://dictionary.law.com/definition2.asp?selected=94&bold=||||
breach of the peace
n. any act which disturbs the public or even one person. It can include almost any criminal act causing fear or attempting intimidation, such as displaying a pistol or shouting inappropriately.
Snapshot from my TV dated 2/16/06.
I have a feeling you are right.. Hopefully they come down on her hard...
BUSH KNEW!
The possibility of what? The MSM burying this so deep that no matter how far they dig they'll never find it?
ML/NJ
***Hopefully they come down on her hard...***
I doubt it...
This from another board I frequent:
"just another Black stopped by the cops on her way to vote."
Do you suppose she did her own poster too?
Do you think that the capitol video of McKinney's striking a sworn officer might be available via the FOIA?
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The question revolves around how "session" is defined. Both houses of Congress get to make their own rules. Somewhere buried in the House rules, I would assume there is a definition of "session." Is it the broad two-year term of office for members? Or is it more narrowly defined as when there an active session occurring on the floor of the House? If it's the latter, and the House had not been gaveled into the daily session, then she can be arrested.
She wonders why cops keep stopping her all the time. Has she looked in the mirror lately? She looks like an obese Whitney Houston after a crack binge. Scary!
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It would cause everyone in the building to go postal and trigger panicky stamp-edes.
Leni
Future Headline: Charges against McKinney Dismissed.
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