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Theresa
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By LAURIE KELLMAN, AP
WASHINGTON (April 3) - U.S. Capitol Police on Monday asked a federal prosecutor to approve an arrest warrant for Rep. Cynthia McKinney after she tangled with a uniformed officer last week.
"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.
Citing the ongoing investigation, Phillips declined to say whether the referral included a recommended charge against the six-term Democrat or when a warrant for her arrest might be issued.
In a statement, Capitol Police said it "has referred its investigative findings to the U.S. attorney." The department must acquire approval from U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Wainstein before it can ask a judge to issue an arrest warrant on assault or other charges.
McKinney spokesman Coz Carson 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."
For her part, McKinney said she expects to represent her suburban Atlanta district for many years.
"Rest assured, I am doing the work they sent me to Washington to do. Nothing is going to keep me away from my responsibilities," McKinney told a crowd of supporters in Atlanta on Monday.
McKinney, 51, scuffled with a police officer on March 29 when she entered a House office building without her identifying lapel pin and did not stop when asked. Several police sources said the officer, who was not identified, asked her three times to stop. When she kept going, he placed a hand somewhere on her and she hit him, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
McKinney issued a statement of regret for the incident but no apology. At a press conference Friday, she and her lawyers declared that she was a victim of inappropriate touching and racism and said they were considering pursuing civil action against the officer.
Black clergy and lawmakers came to the defense of the firebrand congresswoman on Monday. 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.
Her supporters tried to minimize the incident - which they called political, not criminal - but they also suggested it was an example of racial profiling. They called publicity surrounding the episode a distraction that is being used by "her enemies" to keep the congresswoman from performing her elected duties.
The Rev. Reverend Darrell D. Elligan, president of Concerned Black Clergy, called McKinney competent, courageous and committed.
"She has our support unconditionally," Elligan said. "She is not a threat to the security of our country."
Associated Press Writer Errin Haines contributed to this report from Atlanta.
04/03/06 17:01 EDT
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. |
Oh give me a break! Racism? Sheesh.
All accusations like that are going to do is make the police more intent on prosecuting her. The intelligence of our elected officials,  Yay.
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Lord Borg
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| Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:01 pm |
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This is pretty stupid, why did she enter with out proper ID? that cop was there to make sure that the wackkos don't do what she did infact, do
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| Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:12 am |
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Stopping someone without ID is not racism, it's POLICY.
"They called publicity surrounding the episode a distraction that is being used by "her enemies" to keep the congresswoman from performing her elected duties."
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| Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:18 pm |
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I'm listining to Michale Savage, he called what she did a "Slug Job". Apparently they have moved on from the cop being racist, to messing around with her clothes? In anycase it's stupid for them to say the cop was racist when he was doing his job... I should stop posting now, I feel like sprouting off and talking with explenitives
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Theresa
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In a statement I heard on the radio this morning, she claims that the ID badges are not necessary, and that the officers should just recognize everyone on sight.
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| Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:46 pm |
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Is she screwed in the head? there are like... hundreds, if not thousands of people going though that checkpoint each day. I hate her, get her out of office
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| Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:36 am |
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By LAURIE KELLMAN, AP
Breaking News: Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, under fire for an altercation with Capitol police, has apologized to the House.
WASHINGTON (April 6) - A federal grand jury will soon begin hearing evidence about Rep. Cynthia McKinney's run-in with a Capitol Police officer, a lawyer familiar with the case said late Wednesday.
The lawyer, who declined to be identified because of grand jury secrecy, confirmed that federal prosecutors had agreed to get involved in the case in which a black lawmaker is accused of striking a white officer after he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a security checkpoint.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said McKinney turned the officer's failure to recognize her into a criminal matter when she failed to stop at his request, and then struck him.
"He reached out and grabbed her and she turned around and hit him," Gainer said on CNN. "Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, 'I'm a congressman' and then everybody moves on."
"Everything is racism with her. This is incredible arrogance that sometimes hits these members of Congress, but especially Cynthia McKinney."
-- Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas
"This is not about personality," added House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. "It's not about racial profiling. It's about making this place safer."
For her part, McKinney wasn't backing down from the argument. She charged anew that racism is behind what she said is a pattern of difficulty in clearing Hill security checkpoints.
"This has become much ado about hairdo," she said Wednesday on CBS' "The Early Show." McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, recently dropped her trademark cornrows in favor of a curly brown afro.
The police aren't the ones who are racist, one Republican said.
"Cynthia McKinney is a racist," Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends," a day after abandoning his reelection bid under a cloud of ethics charges. "She has a long history of racism. Everything is racism with her. This is incredible arrogance that sometimes hits these members of Congress, but especially Cynthia McKinney."
Last Wednesday's incident in a House office building has caused a commotion on Capitol Hill, where security in the era of terrorist threat is tighter than ever and where authorities had to order an evacuation just Monday because of a power outage.
Capitol Police have turned the case over to U.S. Attorney Kenneth Wainstein, who must decide whether to clear the way for any charges against McKinney. An official in his office said no announcement was expected Wednesday.
"There is a heightened sense of a lack of appropriateness being there for members who are elected who happen to be of color."
-- Rep. Cynthia McKinney
McKinney has garnered little support among fellow Democrats in her feud with the Capitol police. No one in her party chose to join her at a news conference last Friday to discuss the situation.
Republicans, meanwhile, presented a resolution commending Capitol police for professionalism toward members of Congress and visitors - even though they "endure physical and verbal assaults in some extreme cases."
"I don't think it's fair to attack the Capitol Police and I think it's time that we show our support for them," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., a sponsor of the measure. Ignoring a police officer's order to stop, or hitting one, "is never OK," McHenry said.
Some GOP members have said the McKinney incident serves to underscore Democratic insensitivity to security concerns.
Gainer said that racism, however, was not a factor.
"I've seen our officers stop white members and black members, Latinos, male and females," he told CNN. "It's not an issue about what your race or gender is. It's an issue about making sure people who come into our building are recognized if they're not going through the magnetometer, and this officer at that moment didn't recognize her."
"It would have been real easy, as most members of Congress do, to say here's who I am or do you know who I am?" Gainer added.
Police also have said that McKinney was failing to wear a pin that lawmakers are asked to display when entering Capitol facilities.
But she said Wednesday: "Face recognition is the issue .... The pin doesn't have my name on it and it doesn't have my picture on it, and so security should not be based on a pin ... People are focused on my hairdo."
"Something that perhaps the average American just doesn't understand is that there is a heightened sense of a lack of appropriateness being there for members who are elected who happen to be of color," McKinney said, "and until this issue is addressed by the American public in a very substantive way, it won't be the last time."
04-06-06 05:56 EDT
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| Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:21 pm |
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I listend to the Savage Nation last night, a guest host was on, but he still covered this pretty well. Long story short: He thought she was stupid and needs to be busted for hitting a cop. I agree, she sickens me. ONe minute, shes saying she does not want to be racialy profiled, the next shes like "He should have recognized me, there's only three black senators" Make up your mind! *shakes head* Nice to see she "aplogize" but I think shes only doing it to cover her rear. She didnt war her ID, she is at fualt....
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Theresa
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| Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:28 pm |
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I like that bit. She sounds like she's really with it there.
BTW, she hasn't apologized to the Capitol Police, only the Capitol itself.
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