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mikemover · #1 06-19-2006, 06:54 AM

Representative Cynthia McKinney plays the race card (as usual), and manages to get away with assaulting a police officer.

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Friday, June 16, 2006 10:24 p.m. EDT
Rep. McKinney Beats the Rap in D.C.

A grand jury declined Friday to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney in connection with a confrontation in which she admitted hitting a police officer who tried to stop her from entering a House office building.

The grand jury had been considering the case since shortly after the March 29 incident, which has led to much discussion on Capitol Hill about race and the conduct of lawmakers and the officers who protect them.

"We respect the decision of the grand jury in this difficult matter," said U.S. Attorney Kenneth Wainstein.

His statement, released late Friday, also included support for the officer involved, Paul McKenna, and the Capitol Police. He said, "This is a tremendously difficult job, and it is one that Officer McKenna and his colleagues perform with the utmost professionalism and dignity."

With that, Wainstein closed a case that has simmered with racial and political tension.

"I am relieved that this unfortunate incident is behind me," McKinney said in a statement Friday night. "I accept today's grand jury finding of 'no probable cause' as right and just and the proper resolution of this case."

The encounter began when McKinney, D-Ga., tried to enter a House office building without walking through a metal detector or wearing the lapel pin that identifies members of Congress.

McKenna did not recognize her as a member of Congress and asked her three times to stop. When she ignored him, he tried to stop her. McKinney then hit him.

McKinney described the encounter as "racial profiling," insisting she had been assaulted and had done nothing wrong.

McKinney is black. McKenna is white.

She received little public support for that stance, even within the Congressional Black Caucus.

Wainstein, meanwhile, sought an indictment from a federal grand jury, with assault on a police officer mentioned in the filings as a possible charge. That is a felony that would require an indictment.

The grand jury then subpoenaed several House aides thought to have witnessed the encounter. McKenna, too, testified. The grand jury voted not to indict her. Prosecutors also could have charged McKinney with simple assault without having to seek an indictment.

Members of the black caucus privately urged McKinney to put the matter behind her. The next morning, she appeared on the House floor to apologize.

"I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all, and I regret its escalation, and I apologize," McKinney, D-Ga., said April 6. "There should not have been any physical contact in this incident."

© 2006 Associated Press.

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This woman is a raving f***ing idiot, an arrogant, race-baiting media whore, and an embarrassment to everyone in my district who actually has a brain! (Apparently there are not enough of us "brain owners" in the district to prevent her from getting re-elected repeatedly!)

And check out the last paragraph!... She refuses to admit ANY fault in the matter whatsoever!!!! Even in her pathetic, meaningless "apology", she admits NO wrongdoing on her part, she characterizes her brazen disregard for long-established Capitol Police security procedures as a "misunderstanding", and then phrases her last sentence so that it conveniently implies that the OFFICER was at fault for initiating "physical contact".

What a b!tch. I'd love to punch her in the mouth.

But unlike her, I would actually get charged with assault for doing so.

Mike

Carleton Hughes · #2 06-19-2006, 08:00 AM

Isn't she the one who looks like she combed her hair with firecrackers?

She just set race relations back 100 years.

Kuan · #3 06-19-2006, 08:52 AM

How about... "I should not have hit him," emphasis on I? What a douchebag.

Now every policeman will recognize her, her car, her family, her cat, and hopefully every meter reader in the city.

koop · #4 06-19-2006, 09:06 AM

Wasn't she a member of Pnac?

Honus · #5 06-19-2006, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by mikemover

Representative Cynthia McKinney plays the race card (as usual), and manages to get away with assaulting a police officer....

But unlike her, I would actually get charged with assault for doing so.

Mike

She is arrogant and a clown, and she did play the race card in her public statements about this incident, but how do you know that race had anything to do with the outcome of the case? As BENZ-LGB explained to us amateurs the other day, grand jury proceedings are secret.

Zeitgeist · #6 06-19-2006, 01:21 PM

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Wasn't she a member of Pnac?

By golly, I think yer right. PNAC = Project for the New American Constabulary

Clearly, there's a conspiracy afoot. Where the hell is AM radio on this matter of grave national importance?

mikemover · #7 06-19-2006, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by dculkin

She is arrogant and a clown, and she did play the race card in her public statements about this incident, but how do you know that race had anything to do with the outcome of the case? As BENZ-LGB explained to us amateurs the other day, grand jury proceedings are secret.

I can't prove that it influenced the grand jury, but I'd bet money on it.

Either way, she is a piece of $hit, and the grand jury that chose not to indict her failed miserably in their duty.

On a related note: In the upcoming elections in our district, there is a black female candidate running against her who supports the FairTax proposal. I hold little hope of her actually winning (mostly because the ideas she has actually make sense)... but she'll get my vote anyway.

Mike

Honus · #8 06-19-2006, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mikemover

I can't prove that it influenced the grand jury, but I'd bet money on it.

So, doesn't that mean that you are the one playing the race card?

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Either way, she is a piece of $hit, and the grand jury that chose not to indict her failed miserably in their duty...

You Atlantans (I just made up that word) know her better than I, but I agree. From everything I've seen I'd have to say that she's a fool. On the other hand, it's legal to be a piece of $hit, so I don't see how we can blame the grand jury unless we can get a transcript of the evidence presented to it.

mikemover · #9 06-19-2006, 04:39 PM

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So, doesn't that mean that you are the one playing the race card?

How so?

She stated QUITE publicly that she thought the whole thing was racially motivated, even though SHE is the one that tried to bypass the security checkpoint, and SHE is the one who struck the police officer who tried to stop her from doing so.

What are you missing here?....

She undeniably played the race card on this issue, and it is FAR from being the first time she has done so.

As the article pointed out, even the Black Congressional Caucus refused to support her this time, because even THEY can see this one for what it is: Bull$h!t.

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Originally Posted by dculkin

You Atlantans (I just made up that word) know her better than I, but I agree. From everything I've seen I'd have to say that she's a fool. On the other hand, it's legal to be a piece of $hit, so I don't see how we can blame the grand jury unless we can get a transcript of the evidence presented to it.

You know damned well that if a "Joe Citizen" like you or me tried to pull that $h!t, we'd be in jail right now.

Yet she gets a pass, because everyone is so damned afraid of the political-correctness repercussions of accusing a volatile, black, female politician of wrongdoing.

Mike

koop · #10 06-19-2006, 04:44 PM

C'mon, do you really think Bill Frist would be indicted if he shoved his way past a guard?

mikemover · #11 06-19-2006, 04:48 PM

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C'mon, do you really think Bill Frist would be indicted if he shoved his way past a guard?

Possibly not. But he should be.

Mike

Mistress · #12 06-19-2006, 04:53 PM

[QUOTE=Carleton Hughes]Isn't she the one who looks like she combed her hair with firecrackers?

Medussa with firecrackers instead of snakes...

Honus · #13 06-19-2006, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by mikemover

...What are you missing here?...

Did we establish that I was the one missing anything?

Wouldn't be the first time.

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...She undeniably played the race card on this issue, and it is FAR from being the first time she has done so...

She does it all the time, but I doubt that any of that was presented to the grand jury. Grand juries are one-sided deals. As far as I know, they only hear from the prosecutor.

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As the article pointed out, even the Black Congressional Caucus refused to support her this time, because even THEY can see this one for what it is: Bull$h!t.

True.

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You know damned well that if a "Joe Citizen" like you or me tried to pull that $h!t, we'd be in jail right now.

The problem with your analysis is that we don't know what evidence was presented to the grand jury. We know what the newspapers and talk shows said before the fact, but we don't know the specific testimony presented to the grand jury. Maybe the people who said incriminating things about McKinney were exaggerating in their statements to the press. Then, when they were put under oath and subject to being prosecuted for perjury, they told a different story.

It's all speculation.

For all the problems with our justice system, it gets things right more often than not. That's why we should respect the grand jury's decision. It's not as if we need an indictment to know what McKinney is. She proves it herself with her own preposterous statements. She must be bringing home the bacon down there in Atlanta because the voters keep electing her.

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Yet she gets a pass, because everyone is so damned afraid of the political-correctness repercussions of accusing a volatile, black, female politician of wrongdoing.

That's why I say you are playing the race card. You don't know what evidence was presented to the grand jury, so you assume the decision was based on race. That's playing the race card.

Botnst · #14 06-19-2006, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by dculkin

So, doesn't that mean that you are the one playing the race card?You Atlantans (I just made up that word) know her better than I, but I agree. From everything I've seen I'd have to say that she's a fool. On the other hand, it's legal to be a piece of $hit, so I don't see how we can blame the grand jury unless we can get a transcript of the evidence presented to it.

Atlantonationites.

mikemover · #15 06-19-2006, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by dculkin

She must be bringing home the bacon down there in Atlanta because the voters keep electing her.That's why I say you are playing the race card. You don't know what evidence was presented to the grand jury, so you assume the decision was based on race. That's playing the race card.

I never claimed to know what was presented to the grand jury. But I also know that members of the grand jury are human, and they are not immune to what goes on in the world, and in the media. Unless they've been living under a rock, they know about McKinney, and what she does, and what kind of race-baiting, babbling moron she is.

I don't see how the case could have been any more cut-and-dry. She attempted to bypass the security checkpoint, and when an officer tried to stop her from doing so, she physically assaulted him. Period. End of story.

If you or I had done that, we WOULD have been charged. This I DO know.

You are smarter than this. You MUST be arguing the other side merely for argument's sake.

The reason she continues to get re-elected boils down to two things. One: Her opponents in recent elections haven't had much to offer, so she wins "by default". And two: Race, of course. And partisanship. She is black, and the district she is from is predominantly black. She is a Democrat, and the district is predominantly democratic, so.... Unfortunately, we're stuck with her for now.

Mike