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"This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me . . ."
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. . . and, if I want to wear a bomb vest into the House chambers and slaughter hundreds of my colleagues then, damnit, that's my right!
Actually, scarily, that's true. It's in the constitution that an elected representative cannot be prevented from assuming and exercising his/her office.
I think any sane cop would stop a suicide bomber-congress member anyway, it sucks tho that in doing so the cop could be arrested.