Posted on 04/03/2006 11:16:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
McKinney incident referred to U.S. Attorney's Office
The Associated Press - ATLANTA
Capitol Hill police have referred a scuffle between one of their officers and U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., a spokesman for the office said Monday.
"We are working with Capitol Hill police to fully understand and appreciate the incident," principal assistant U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "Pending review, it is inappropriate for us to comment any further at this time."
Phillips would not say whether a warrant was issued for McKinney's arrest.
McKinney spokesman Coz Carson on Monday also acknowledged the investigation.
"We're aware that the wheels are turning in Washington," Carson said. "We have no control over what they decide to do. We will make the appropriate statement and take the appropriate action once we know where they're going."
At a press conference Monday morning, black clergy and lawmakers came the defense of the firebrand congresswoman. McKinney smiled as her supporters heaped praise on her leadership and her new look _ her trademark cornrows replaced earlier this year by a curly brown afro.
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LOL, I was asking a rhetorical question, but your reply seals it for me. Before the end of the week, the cop will be walking a beat in Anacostia, and Cynthia will have her own private entrance..
You're right. I'm sure everything about King's funeral ceremonies was planned by organizations (NAACP, etc) that assigned seating. But of course, not everyone will know that and blame whitey.
O-TAY!!
O-TAY!
Prosecutors have discretion to do whatever they want, basically.
Yet........
And don't forget how it would dangerously raise your blood pressure!
Hi, Mary. It's great to see you posting.
Let's all pray for the officer and his family. Though nothing will likely happen to her, she will try to destroy his life.
LOL LOL
You're in the trash?
We all know that Congresscritters are not subject to their own laws and regulations. Rockefeller Implicated in Plot to Leak Secret War Intel
She should, at the very least, be censured and fined.
Her disorderly conduct is the tip of the iceberg with this very troubled (mentally) individual.
I think they are playing September 10th tactics in a September 11th world.
Mark Twain on Congress:
Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
- What Is Man?
...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
- Letter fragment, 1891
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
- Notebook #14, 11/1877 - 7/1878
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography; also in Mark Twain in Eruption
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether--Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.
- Mark Twain's Speeches, "The Weather"
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
- Notebook, 1868
...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
- "Foster's Case", New York Tribune, 3/10/1873
That's Sheila Jackson Lee.
"heaped praise on her leadership and her new look _ her trademark cornrows replaced earlier this year by a curly brown afro." Well you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.
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