No Apology From McKinney for Hill Scuffle

AP ^ | 3/31/6 | AURIE KELLMAN

[SmithL]

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.

[ncountylee]

Many misdemeanors escalated into felonies when a person resisted/touched/struck or swung at an officer.

That's because law enforcement is equal in 'on the job fatality' as non-farm gardening.

[Ron/GA]

Huh? I just finished some "non-farm gardening and felt pretty safe. Should I have been carrying? :-)

[caisson71]

They KNOW they are. You are just a confused taxpayer thinking you matter.

[AbeKrieger]

Some times, when you're oppressed by the MAN, all you know is violence. You just can't control yourself and have to lash out. Race-based justification.

[goresalooza]

IMPEACH HER NOW! Where is the house ethics committee on this one? I smell a "culture of corruption" within her party...LOL. When will she do the perp walk?

IMPEACH MCKINNEY NOW! LOL....

[tcrlaf]

From another board I frequent:
"Just another Black stopped on her way to vote..."

Can you believe the racist BS coming from this??

[longtermmemmory]

she is also black so that also gives her a free pass.

[La Enchiladita]

Jury nullification.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

I am getting real tired of these people......no, correct that..... I AM tired of these people who think they are above the huddled mass of humanity!

Not only McKinney
There's Lardass Kennedy
John Conyer
Chuck Schumer
Jesse Jackson
Feingold
Bab Boxer
Nancy Pelosi
Harry Reid
Sometimes McPain

Lessee, I must have left some people out! There must be more.......

[the anti-liberal]

"Just another Black stopped on her way to vote..."

I don't suppose they make any mention of the fact that she consistently refuses to wear her congressional pin?

[SC DOC]

Here is where we find out if there really is a double standard. Are our elected representatives really better than we are?

Of course there is a double standard. Just like the Legal Insider Trading that allows congress and staff aides to enrich themselves in the stock market at everyone else's expense.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Mental Retardation Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry.

[Big Digger]

She needs to have her lights punched out. It would give her an idea of what "consequences" are. Very educational.

[samadams2000]

I guess anyone can serve in congress...

[TexasTransplant]

You left out

Rockefeller
Clinton (s)
Finegold
Berger
Kennedy (must be mentioned twice he's twice the clown he used to be)

[Cheburashka]

She could be expelled by a two-thirds vote of the House.
Do you seriously expect that any Democrats would vote for that?
Since she found a district dumb enough to elect her, I expect she is a Congressbuffoon for life.

[ErnBatavia]

I accidently spilled some beer on a policeman once. Just a little

Maybe because the beer had passed through your kidneys first?

[massgopguy]

Meanwhile Anton Scalia is still Italian!

[geezerwheezer]

She is a racist pig of the worst sort, as are many of her fellow congresspersons! She and her daddy have represented black Georgians for many years, and if you think for one second that blacks ain't bigger racists than whites, then you better re-think what you call a racist. I have dealt with blacks who would rather kill a white than have to do anything with them. Some, are even so called "preachers" in the black communities, and I would venture a guess of 70-75% of blacks have racist views towards whites, Cubans, and Mexicans. Don't believe me? Go down to Macon, Georgia and listen to the black radio stations in middle Georgia. Real eyeopeners there! It will really get your attention. Cynthia represents these haters of white America, and she plays the race card every chance she gets.

[numberonepal]

To both of your comments the word gerrymandered should be added preceeding the word district to be fully correct.