Posted on 03/31/2006 4:42:16 AM PST by rhema
Capitol Hill police are expected to seek an arrest warrant next week for Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, who was involved in a physical confrontation with a Capitol police officer Wednesday, police and legal authorities said Thursday.
Officially, the investigation of the incident, in which the DeKalb County Democrat allegedly struck a police officer who tried to stop her from going around a security checkpoint, is ongoing, said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, spokeswoman for Capitol Hill police.
However, police have notified the federal prosecutor's office in Washington that they will be seeking an arrest warrant after the investigation is complete next week, said police and legal authorities, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because the investigation was not yet complete.
McKinney ignored a reporter's questions Thursday as she walked into the Capitol, before word of the planned arrest warrant. She could not be reached for comment later Thursday. . . .
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That McKinney lady is one nasty piece of work. Put er in the slammer for 5 years!
I think it is actually illegal to arrest or even charge a sitting member of the House or Senate when the House or Senate is in session, without a vote in the House or Senate to allow it.
I heard on Fox I think yesterday that no charges were planned to be filed, but apparently that changed. The officer was afraid there would be some kind of backlash, but there were two witnesses to the incident.
The last thing that needs to be done is to let people like McKinney get away with crimes just because there might be a backlash (riots, whatever).
Her's is a heavily democratic district. It just goes to show that liberals are a little short on standards.
Wonder why she doesn't wear the pin. Ashamed of being an American, maybe?
No doubt.
You owe me a keyboard!!!
Didn't buckwheat have a sister, who basically looked like buckwheat in a dress?
A little taser action would have done the trick and might have knocked some sense into that whackjob
Posted 3/31/2006 4:12 PM Updated 3/31/2006 4:49 PMLawyer says McKinney a victim in scuffle
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had an altercation with a Capitol Police officer, says she was "just a victim of being in Congress while black."Her lawyer, James W. Myart Jr., said, "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."
Too bad we can't protect her from that "victimhood" by making someone else take her place.
No kidding.
I call a personal foul on her lawyer for pleading excessive victimhood in the press.
Penalty, no showing any of their faces within 50 miles of Washington D.C., forever.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Arrest and prosecution. She is not above the law. Anyone else would be already awaiting sentencing for what she did.
She looks vacant...probably on psychotropic meds.
The bunch of them are emabarrassing.
She got some problems.
Someone ought to slap Pelosi and then claim it was not a slap.. They should claim it was just an attempt to knock some sense into her head.
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