Posted on 03/31/2006 10:24:32 AM PST by 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.
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Ok then, that clears it up. Nothing to see here.
Did you really mean "repatriations"?
LOL.
Rats do not apologize.
Sub-human Rats don't even know how.
If our "leadership" had any cojones, they would run this one into the ground 24/7.
FNC just mentioned the previous incidents. Including the stink she made at the WH.
Cynthia-be-buggin'-ag'in ping.
Yes, you would think this would be worth at least a Denny Hastert denunciation from the chair, gavel in hand.
Make a stink. Mad Cow McKinney needs her whuppin'.
"Do you seriously expect that any Democrats would vote for that?"
Oh, hell no...they would not mess with the race card. I'm only saying IMPEACH her because that's how nutty they are about Bush. She's there for life....and now we have weeks of the race card garbage to look for.
The hair! The hair! My eyes!
Just as I looked at your post, Crazy McKinney came on the TEEVEE ....
She needs tranquilizers.
I don't have a Congressman, I have Lee. Whatever I need, she is reflexively and orgasmically against. What a toad.
"Singer and activist Harry Belafonte and actor Danny Glover also appeared with McKinney. They said they had come not in judgment of the facts of the case, but, as Glover put it, "to support our sister." "
Dear Harry and Danny,
Is Condi also a sister?
"Did you really mean "repatriations"?"
Did I say something wrong? I am not always the sharpest knife in the drawer.
"Did you really mean "repatriations"?
LOL.'
Ok, tell me that wasn't a slip. LOL...
"Repatriations" for "reparations" is, how shall we say this, "historically resonant" -- there really were a couple of "back to Africa" movements in the 19th century. Church and abolition groups sent thousands of ex-slaves to found Liberia in the first half of the century, and then Abraham Lincoln endorsed their idea in the 1850's and continued to explore possibilities for black freedmen's emigration while he was president. One scheme he apparently had in mind was to use an army of about a million freedmen to build the Panama Canal 30 years early, after which the survivors (this was before Army doctors got a handle on yellowjack) would settle in Central America. When Lincoln died, General Van Sickles (he of the Wheatfield at Gettysburg) was in Panama and New Granada (Colombia) pursuing this possibility. Lastly, Marcus Garvey launched his own "back to Africa" movement at the close of the 19th century, whose enduring contribution has turned out to be his movement's flag, in the colors red, green, and black.
Believe it in a heartbeat.
The basic claim of antiracialism is that people are all pretty much alike.
Catch-22: if Georgia rednecks can be racist, so can Georgia blacks. I've no doubt that McKinney is the real deal, a 100% triple-rectified and case-hardened black racist who hates every minute that she lives in a country full of white people she'd sincerely like to see GO AWAY.
ROFL... Reparations. That's what I meant.
Ok, liberal blond moment on my part.
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