Posted on 03/31/2006 4:22:30 PM PST by Cecily
In a Friday afternoon news conference, Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-4th) said that the altercation between she and a Capitol police officer was started by the officer "inappropriately touching and stopping" her after she walked past a security checkpoint.
Prior to the news conference that, at times, seemed more like a church revival meeting, one of McKinney's lawyers, James W. Myart Jr. said that her problems with police are racial in nature.
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin, Myart said. Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black.
McKinneys office on Thursday afternoon, released a video clip from the independent documentary American Blackout, in which McKinney is questioned by a Capitol police officer who does not immediately recognize her. In the clip, she implies that the questioning is because she is black.
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Cynthia give this guy a break. With you new hair you did not look like an acorn like you did with your old hairdo.
Your Kerry Ski Photo
"I didn't fall, that son-of-a-bitch PUSHED me."
Brilliant!! Different Victim, same thought
damn she ugly
Overwhelmingly stupid - in character for McKinney.
They must be shaking in their boots because of the days of "poor blacks" are about over, to be replaced by "poor Mexicans". Follow the money!!
Just have to comment that based on her lawyer's statement, she is a racist piece of garbage. She can't keep her hands to herself and treat an officer correctly, so she makes racial charges against that officer and thousands of others around the country. She is a real scum.
Nay, just make all the Congress members wear crowns like Kings and Queens. We are almost there anyway.
Me too, Cecily. Ms. McKinney is digging herself a bottomless, pugnacious, short-sighted trapping hole. She's giving this story some sturdy, Hillary-type legs which will walk her right into her own lair. Bear trap on her bung and stuff.
In other words, they got it on tape and the only card she has to play is the race card.
What a raciest witch.
Does anybody know if the officer was black or white?
Even though she could be a stand-in for Oprah! in short time, the real one has more than 2 brain cells to rub together to have her on.
She's had 4 other scuffles with the capitol police. Maybe their commander should cite or arrest her because it's time for a behavior change. If I were a GOP congressman, I would urge her to make many more press-conferences, lol!!
He was a White guy/cracker. lol
Boy, what a way to get disappointed in the world when you look at who paid to get her into office.
What's wrong with the people from Georgia to have voted this idiot into office?
How is it that official Washington can get its collective knickers in a twist over the Dubai Ports issue because of its Emirates connection and now we have a member of congress who is essentially owned the Arabs? What's up with that?
Try to remember that spell check is our friend!
You have the wrong approach. You should encourage her further along. This is the 5th time she did something stupid with cops. Her district must like this stuff. Help her Congressional performance along in a way that gets her votes at home.
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