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Trajan Octavian Titus said:By her own words the cop body blocked her which means he was in front of her:
And she was not wearing her identification pin:
She was not wearin her identification pin:
And this is not the first of such incidents involving the Representative from Georgia:
She is definately in the wrong here not the cop.
Kelzie said:Again. Define the "altercation". Coulda just been an argument.
RealmOfThePureForms said:Cynthia McKinney is a racist plain and simple. I saw her statement on tv today about how she was only stopped because she was a black woman and that it was racism. She was quoted before as saying something about not wanting to be checked at a metal detector because it was by "white" people.
When are black people going to stop playing the race card? It is so damn rediculous and I am so sick and tired of hearing racism every time a black person does something wrong. Affirmative action is racism, Cynthia McKinney is a racist, what the police officer did was standard procedure and McKinney knew it. She just loves to make a scene. To quote some relevant words from the movie Dragon Heart "Nobody is above the law, especially the king"
Befuddled_Stoner said::rofl no matter how unimportant a congressperson she may be, I have little doubt that someone in her position would be able to apply pressure to the cop's superiors to force him to drop such minor charges. Lawmakers being held to the same standards as everyone else? *sigh* if only....
Kelzie said:If the policeman didn't identify himself and grabbed her arm she was well within reason to slap him.
Stinger said:He was in uniform, at a security checkpoint and he asked her several times to stop. He put his hand on her shoulder which he is perfectly intitled to do to get her attention.
Captain America said:She comes across to me as nothing BUT a racist.
vergiss said:Wow, I didn't know other people had eyes on the back of their head.
It was her arm, not shoulder.
Gardener said:I'm curious about something Vergis. Do you know anything about McKinney's actual politics or are you defending her to the degree you are defending her based on something else?
The reason I ask is that since she is so virulently antisemitic and you are Jewish, I'm wondering if you are defending her out of some sense of nobility or because you simply do not know what she's all about.
vergiss said:You, however, have just proven that the people baying for her blood are not.
danarhea said:OK, now the real reason comes out. McKinney is being targeted because she is black, according to her lawyer. Of course, we should have known all along that the law allows black congresswomen to strike cops.
Jeez..................
Article is here.
danarhea said:OK, now the real reason comes out. McKinney is being targeted because she is black, according to her lawyer. Of course, we should have known all along that the law allows black congresswomen to strike cops.
Jeez..................
Article is here.
Gardener said:I asked you a question, and you respond with this. If you wish to make this personal, then by all means continue. If you wish to discuss, instead, then kindly show at least a modicum of respect. I certainly have not bayed for her blood nor proven I am incapable of anything. That you would portray me as such says more about your personal needs than it does mine.
As far as her antisemitism is concerned, her various Nation of Islam style rants about Jewish control of the media and Jews pulling the strings of government certainly qualifies to me. If that's just fine with you so be it, and we simply have a disagreement as to what qualifies as antisemitism.
aps said:The article in the New York Times yesterday makes me sick. Boy, she is something else. She gets Danny Glover and Harry Bellafonte to stand next to her at a black university to claim that, "This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black Congresswoman." Gawd, she makes me sick!
On top of that, she admits that she was not wearing her wittle lapel pin that would indicate she is a Member of Congress, but that the police should have recognized her. She said, "The issue is face recognition." Excuse me? No, honey, the issue is your thinking that you're too good for security measures and that everyone should recognize you. Face recognition? Do we know how long that policeman had been working for the Capitol police?
I mentioned this yesterday about the "they all look alike" syndrome, and that's what she is claiming. Remember what I said was that the only people who have said my husband and I look like brother and sister are black people. It goes both ways!
Apparently, she is considering pursuing a criminal investigation against the officer. I am utterly disgusted with this woman, and I hope she goes down.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/washington/01mckinney.html
Here's the article.
Kelzie said:Yes and if he grabs her from behind like he did, how was she supposed to know that?
easyt65 said:In her most recent interview in which she actually spoke, she did not say she thought she was being attacked - she said she was tired of having to validate her identity to WHITE PEOPLE! That tells me that she thinks she is special as a member of congress and that little lapel pin should allow her to walk in without being challenged, that she should be recognized on site by the several hundred different security police who have to man the post protecting her butt while thousands of people walk in and out of there each week. As I said earlier as well, if it is SOP for them to slow down, flash the pin or some ID, and it is the guards job to ensure that happens, and she failed to do so - whe is in the wrong.
But just her own words make it SOUND like 1) she has a problem with WHITE people, and 2) she had a chip on her shoulder about having to show ID when entering the building, the frustration or whatever you want to call it got the better of her, and she slapped the cop. Also, if it was a simple case of mistaken identity, believeing she was being attacked, then it should not have been a big deal to apologize for striking the policeman after the fact. The fact that she refused to apologize at 1st demonstrates, at least to me, that she was holding a grudge, again, for having to 'validate her identity to White people', maybe even that she believed because of it that the cop deserved what he got!
Bottom line, though, she struck a cop. That is against the law. She, I assume - haven't heard the latest, got arrested. I guess the details will be settle later by a judge.
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