Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) Assaults Cop

[aps]

***I'm proud of you aps. This McKinney joke has had numerous encounters with police etc. in crying racial profiling. What a wasted load for congress to deal with. She is the epitome of what one would call a true racist.

ptsdkid, I think she is a disgrace to Congress. I am glad that the dems are not backing her up and that she is standing alone on this issue. Why the hell could she NOT apologize? She raised the issue of how pages are expected to memorize every Member's face and name. So what? Pages are NOT there to secure the building and make sure that Members of Congress are safe.

She had the audacity to say that there are 2 lawsuits against the Capitol police by black police officers. Soledad pointed out that they were filed prior to September 11th.

 

[Gill]

You must be running low since you've used so many, so here's a new one for ya Cynthia.....

 

[Navy Pride]

Supposedly, that's not what they are taught to do. The police are told to look at the pin and then see if they recognize the Congress person. If they don't, the person should be stopped.

Did anyone see the interview that Soledad O'Brien had (or attempted to have) with McKinney on the CNN morning show? Well, you can watch it from your computer. Here is a link to an article, and you want to scroll down to the part of it that says you can click there to watch it.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/05/mckinney.scuffle/

She interrupts Soledad, she refuses to answer questions, she continually makes this issue about "racial profiling." It was ridiculous. McKinney clearly has some sort of personality problem, IMO.

aps I don't think its a personality problem...Her problem is she is a rascist ant a anti-semite..........

 

[Navy Pride]

I just heard her apologize in a statement on the floor in the HOR.......Her apology does not mean squat..............I hope the grand jury charges and indicts her........

 

[easyt65]

:shock: How can you guys doubt her sincerity? faced with a Federal Grand jury meeting on the issue, possibly facing REAL punishment, she has come out on her own free will to apologize and has declared that she will sign the legislation praising the Capitol Police! What more do you WHITE PEOPLE want from her?! :rofl

On a side note, I watched the interview with her lawyer, and I almost lost my lunch - what a racist tirade?! Tom DeLay, the white boy, wouldn't know what it is like to walk into a store and be followed because he is white! Be that as it may, what does it have to do with McKinney striking a police officer who was doing his duty again? :roll:

 

[Alias]

I've seen people like McKinney all through my life. They play the victim from birth to death. She is a racist, pure and simple. The apology was not an apology. Read it again. She does not "regret" anything she did.

 

[easyt65]

I just saw another one of her defense attorneys talking and the level of racism and biased partisan Hypocisy was INCREDIBLE!

He said that the GOP was unfairly targeting McKinney in a calculated partisan attack. 'This is a non-issue - she has apologized, the officer has apologized, so why can't we just drop the whole thing? The Republicans are just being petty and attacking the Democrats on anything they can.' :spin: :rofl

Please! Ever since Bush won the 2nd election, the Democrats have been lobbying charges and subpeonas at any GOP member who breathes hard! Feingold even introduced legislation calling for the Censure of the President for running a LEGAL program! I don't want to go here, though - the striking of a police officer does not have anything to do with the petty political bias/war that goes on party-vs-party, of which both sides are occassionally guilty!

1st its the RACE card and then its the 'Biased GOP's political attacks' - anyone else's fault besides McKinney's! she had the opportunity to make this all go away by simply apologizing from the beginning, but she started screaming, instead, about how she was the victim. NOW, with a Federal Grand jury meeting, she is apologizing, signing the 'kudos to the cops' legislation, and doing anything she can to make it end.

It means nothing, though, while she has her Defense attorneys out there still broadcasting to the world that McKinney is a victim of partisan politics and of racism! If she really meant what she was saying in her faux apologies, she would be muzzling her lawyers! Even Pelosi, from her own party, is saying she is not only a distraction but a disgrace!

 

[Alias]

She went out and gathered up the godfathers to speak for her at the first news conference. Now she is left with only her lawyers. She still has not apologized for what SHE did. The cop was doing his job.

How many of the black caucus have publicly defended her?????? None.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

I just heard her apologize in a statement on the floor in the HOR.......Her apology does not mean squat..............I hope the grand jury charges and indicts her........

No. She DID NOT apologize.

She said that physical contact should never have occured. She didn't say that SHE shouldn't have hit the cop. The difference is plain. The cop had every business placing his hands on an unknown uppity racist trying to enter a controlled area. She was the one at fault, and until she admits that it was her fault, and her's alone, she hasn't apologized.

 

[Captain America]

I HAVE to wonder, after watching her in the spotlight these last few days, how ANYBODY that stupid ever made it into public office. This just tells me her constituants are even more ignorant than she is.

 

[easyt65]

The latest news is that she has hired a bodyguard, I guess to handle any Capitol security who tries to challenge her again.

This body guard is already causing trouble, screaming at a reporter on the Capiton steps, "Get back - I will throw your @$$ in jail. I'm a police officer!" He is a (retired?) police officer, but several Democrats expressed concern over her new body guard, fearing he might be carrying a weapon and what would happen the next time McKinney attempts to go into the building without wearing her pin and being challenged by another security guard!

We'll see....I won't be surprised to read tomorrow about a shoot out between Capiton Cops and her body guard! :doh

 

[Captain America]

I hope we see her in an orange jumpsuit one of these days.

 

[Alias]

And the democrats shoot themselves in the foot again. Trying to make security an issue in the coming election and then arguing with the very cops trying to do their job. Man you guys are stupid. If I was a dem, I would be telling the bitch to shut the hell up, apologize, and then get busy finding another dem to beat her in the primary.

 

[Kelzie]

And the democrats shoot themselves in the foot again. Trying to make security an issue in the coming election and then arguing with the very cops trying to do their job. Man you guys are stupid. If I was a dem, I would be telling the bitch to shut the hell up, apologize, and then get busy finging another dem to beat her in the primary.

She...did...apologize.

 

[Captain America]

And the democrats shoot themselves in the foot again. Trying to make security an issue in the coming election and then arguing with the very cops trying to do their job. Man you guys are stupid. If I was a dem, I would be telling the bitch to shut the hell up, apologize, and then get busy finging another dem to beat her in the primary.

My my observations, that is pretty much the position the Dems are taking. Hey, the GOP has Bush and Cheney and the Dems have McKinney and Dean.

Everybody has a retarded cousin.

And the beat goes on...............................

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

She...did...apologize.

No, she made some clintonesque noises that were almost but not quite entirely unlike an apology.

She didn't accept responsibility for her actions, she didn't even specify exactly what she did. 'T'ain't no apology, 'tis a show.

 

[Alias]

She...did...apologize.

I disagree. She said she regrets what happened, but she never said she was sorry for what SHE did. The cop did his job perfectly.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

I HAVE to wonder, after watching her in the spotlight these last few days, how ANYBODY that stupid ever made it into public office. This just tells me her constituants are even more ignorant than she is.

Racist gerrymandering, of course. Besides, is she dumber than Queen Sheila? That would be hard to believe.

 

[easyt65]

She...did...apologize.

Kelzie, I would have bought her apology more if

1. She did not wait until a Federal grand jury was deciding her fate to give it....

2. Her Lawyers weren't on CNN proclaiming how she is such a victim or the police force's racism and of political bias, that she did nothing wrong!

 

[Kelzie]

No, she made some clintonesque noises that were almost but not quite entirely unlike an apology.

She didn't accept responsibility for her actions, she didn't even specify exactly what she did. 'T'ain't no apology, 'tis a show.

So this:

I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation and I apologize.

Somehow isn't an apology to you?

 

[Kelzie]

Kelzie, I would have bought her apology more if

1. She did not wait until a Federal grand jury was deciding her fate to give it....

2. Her Lawyers weren't on CNN proclaiming how she is such a victim or the police force's racism and of political bias, that she did nothing wrong!

I don't really care if you bought it or not. I was just pointing out that she did in fact apologize.

 

[Alias]

I don't really care if you bought it or not. I was just pointing out that she did in fact apologize.

What did she apologize for? Did she apologize for hitting a police officer? What is the penalty for striking a police office in Washington D.C. ?

 

[Arthur Fonzarelli]

What exactly did McKinney apologize for?

"There should not have been any physical contact in this incident," McKinney said in brief remarks on the House floor. "I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation and I apologize."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060406/ap_on_go_co/mckinney_scuffle_34

She apologized for the misunderstanding & its escalation; not for her actions.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

So this:



Somehow isn't an apology to you?

No. She didn't take full responsibility. It was a weasel worded statement, nothing more. She was told by her handlers to include the words "I apologize" so the softer heads would feel that she actually said something with content.

She didn't resign from office stating her obvious unfitness, did she?

I guess the "apology" didn't mean anything, then.

 

[Kelzie]

What exactly did McKinney apologize for?



She apologized for the misunderstanding & its escalation; not for her actions.

She said there should not have been any physical contanct and then she said...word for word..."I apologize". It really isn't all that complicated of a statement.