Posted on 05/04/2006 1:54:08 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier
Thursday, May 4; 4:16 pm
By John McArdle,
Roll Call Staff
Police labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to allow a Capitol Police officer to complete his investigation into an early-morning car crash involving Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.).
According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy’s car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade at First and C streets Southeast.
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“The driver exited the vehicle and he was observed to be staggering,” Baird’s letter states. Officers approached the driver, who “declared to them he was a Congressman and was late to a vote. The House had adjourned nearly three hours before this incident. It was Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy from Rhode Island.”
Baird wrote that Capitol Police Patrol Division units, who are trained in driving under the influence cases, were not allowed to perform basic field sobriety tests on the Congressman. Instead, two sergeants, who also responded to the accident, proceeded to confer with the Capitol Police watch commander on duty and then “ordered all of the Patrol Division Units to leave the scene and that they were taking over.”
Baird said he had been advised that after the officers departed, Capitol Police “House Division officials” gave Kennedy a ride home.
Kennedy’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
“If the events unfolded as they have been reported to me, and I believe they did, a complete and immediate investigation into them is required,” Baird wrote to McGaffin. Baird asked the acting chief why officers on the scene were prevented from completing the appropriate investigation “into violations of law they witnessed. This appears to be interference with their duties as U.S. Capitol Police Officers and may have prevented the collection of evidence of such violations."
“My members were attempting to carry out their duties with the professionalism and objectivity their oaths require. They should have been assisted in those duties by every level of supervision and command. Instead these circumstances call the integrity of our organization into question by creating the appearance of special favor for someone who is perceived to be privileged and powerful,” Baird wrote.
While a Capitol Police spokeswoman could not be reached for comment, Baird said in an interview this afternoon that McGaffin had contacted him about his letter.
“I want the public and those who we protect to know that we are fair and impartial when it comes to enforcing the laws on capitol grounds and the officers are doing their jobs in accordance to the laws and D.C. code and U.S. code,” he said.” That’s really why we want this addressed.”
The Fast and the Furious DC ping
Now that's funny right there.
Knock me over with a feather. CBS actually reported this story on their evening broadcast...
The rum bottle doesn't fall very far from the tree.
Ah, Barrier-Gate, put the popcorn in the microwave...
Yeah.... 'TEE-HEE!'
he probably was late, stopped off for a few first
That said. . .call 'MADD'. ..the little Kennedy can be a poster boy. . .
Maybe the Kennedys have some agreement in place with the admin already if something like this was to happen. /sarc (i think)
They are free because the sheeple are misinformed, lied to, flim-flammed, paid-off, lazy, etc etc..........( insert whatever makes your mop flop. )
Sure people laugh...but not because it's funny. I think many probably laugh in despair or in a sarcastic way...which is what I did towards your post.
S'alright. I gottcha.....
Wow! Page 6, Kennedy can't even write. They didn't even have to black out his address because it was illegible scribble.
Nice collection there. :-D
Perfectly clear.
What is also clear is Congressman Kennedy's lack of respect for that law.
Yes, it was his nephew, he got out of the rape charge.
>>>>>"If anything close to substantial punishment comes of this...I will run naked through the closest tick and chigger infested forest"<<<<
In chest high grass?
(I just started itching all over)
TT
Well-done on your list of corrupt dims. I had only four and am posting it like mad over in the AOL political chatroom I hang out in.
THANKS! Hopefully, this will muck up the election year even more for the rats...
BUAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH!
(He'll get away with it until he kills someone)
Maybe the police should back track the kennedy drunk's route. There may be a dead body from a hit and run.
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