Posted on 04/05/2006 3:46:35 PM PDT by mhking
MSNBC reported late Wednesday afternoon that a grand jury would hear evidence against Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-4th Ga.) on Thursday.
No word is available on how soon a warrant may be issued against McKinney.
The Washington Post reports Capitol police want McKinney prosecuted on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a police officer. The fourth district congresswoman has said she's a victim of racial profiling and insists she struck the officer after he touched her inappropriately.
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Our leaders are naught but scofflaws, only the common folk have to obey the laws.
Illegals break the law and are rewarded, the employers of illegals break the law, and our congress critters stop ICE from prosecuting or raiding for illegals.
Question, why in the hell should any of us obey any laws? Lets all become scofflaws. The windows are broken, time to tear the entire structure down.
There was a post on another McKinney thread that outlined the possibility that the cops, having received no respect, might not rush to stop the next person....
and another that wondered if Ms. McKinney can recognize all the cops as she so daringly expects the cops to recognize all her hairdos.
Since DemonRats, libs & lefties are never held accountable for any of their criminal actions when they commit them, why would you think any DimWit would take the blame for some deranged killer who walks around security cause the cops are too afraid to challenge him/her. And if or when the killer strikes, well, that will be someone eles's fault (like blaming Bush) for too lax of security. The dastardly Dims, libs & lefties never are accountable or responsible for any of their actions, criminal or otherwise.
One can only hope.
IIRC, striking a police officer is a felony. (Someone please correct me if that's wrong.)
I'm probably the only person on your b/c ping list who thinks this is much ado over nothing. I guess my moral outrage buffer is full . . .
And no one to blame except an anonymous group of people. How convenient.
Hmmm.. I really doubt much will happen here. It seems anymore that laws are only intended for those who don't break them.
Please keep us posted. :-)
Security in the capitol is a big concern. Congress critters better support the police. The police know who has had young female interns in their offices after midnight. Young male ones too.
A federal grand jury will soon begin hearing evidence about Rep. Cynthia McKinney's run-in with a Capitol Police officer, a lawyer familiar with the case said late Wednesday.
The lawyer, who declined to be identified because of grand jury secrecy, confirmed that federal prosecutors had agreed to get involved in the case in which a black lawmaker is accused of striking a white officer after he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a security checkpoint.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said McKinney turned the officer's failure to recognize her into a criminal matter when she failed to stop at his request, and then struck him.
"He reached out and grabbed her and she turned around and hit him," Gainer said on CNN. "Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, 'I'm a congressman' and then everybody moves on."
"This is not about personality," added House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. "It's not about racial profiling. It's about making this place safer."
For her part, McKinney wasn't backing down from the argument. She charged anew that racism is behind what she said is a pattern of difficulty in clearing Hill security checkpoints.
"This has become much ado about hairdo," she said Wednesday on CBS' "The Early Show." McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, recently dropped her trademark cornrows in favor of a curly brown afro.
The police aren't the ones who are racist, one Republican said.
"Cynthia McKinney is a racist," Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends," a day after abandoning his reelection bid under a cloud of ethics charges. "She has a long history of racism. Everything is racism with her. This is incredible arrogance that sometimes hits these members of Congress, but especially Cynthia McKinney."
Last Wednesday's incident in a House office building has caused a commotion on Capitol Hill, where security in the era of terrorist threat is tighter than ever and where authorities had to order an evacuation just Monday because of a power outage.
Capitol Police have turned the case over to U.S. Attorney Kenneth Wainstein, who must decide whether to clear the way for any charges against McKinney. An official in his office said no announcement was expected Wednesday.
McKinney has garnered little support among fellow Democrats in her feud with the Capitol police. No one in her party chose to join her at a news conference last Friday to discuss the situation.
Republicans, meanwhile, presented a resolution commending Capitol police for professionalism toward members of Congress and visitors _ even though they "endure physical and verbal assaults in some extreme cases."
"I don't think it's fair to attack the Capitol Police and I think it's time that we show our support for them," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R- N.C., a sponsor of the measure. Ignoring a police officer's order to stop, or hitting one, "is never OK," McHenry said.
Some GOP members have said the McKinney incident serves to underscore Democratic insensitivity to security concerns.
Gainer said that racism, however, was not a factor.
"I've seen our officers stop white members and black members, Latinos, male and females," he told CNN. "It's not an issue about what your race or gender is. It's an issue about making sure people who come into our building are recognized if they're not going through the magnetometer, and this officer at that moment didn't recognize her."
"It would have been real easy, as most members of Congress do, to say here's who I am or do you know who I am?" Gainer added.
Police also have said that McKinney was failing to wear a pin that lawmakers are asked to display when entering Capitol facilities.
But she said Wednesday: "Face recognition is the issue .... The pin doesn't have my name on it and it doesn't have my picture on it, and so security should not be based on a pin ... People are focused on my hairdo."
"Something that perhaps the average American just doesn't understand is that there is a heightened sense of a lack of appropriateness being there for members who are elected who happen to be of color," McKinney said, "and until this issue is addressed by the American public in a very substantive way, it won't be the last time."
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No, Cynthia, until YOU obey the rules everyone else does, it won't be the last time your butt ugliness makes you a revolting laughing stock. (PS .. lose the hairdont)
Nailed!
Inappropriately ?....inappropriately ? He should have knocked her on her ass.
I hate when people try to prevaricate instead of answering question. I would hope that someone in Georgia will come to their senses and not vote this lady back into office. She seems like a nut job.
This is a serious problem. If this snotty spoiled brat "walks" on this, what kind of message are we sending to the Capitol Police? If we don't back these people, they will think their job is not important, and make a half-hearted challenge effort. Thats when the NutCase with the bomb vest walks into the building!!! If SanFran Nan Pelosi thinks it's "not a big deal"...let her. It may be her arrogant ass that gets blown up!!
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