Post by: K Frame on April 06, 2006, 09:15:06 AM
Hopefully that doesn't shut off the grand jury investigation.
Post by: Azrael256 on April 06, 2006, 10:00:43 AM
Impersonating a police officer is still a felony, right?
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/0406natmckinney.html
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on April 06, 2006, 10:08:07 AM
Post by: garyk/nm on April 06, 2006, 10:11:23 AM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on April 06, 2006, 11:23:28 AM
some animals are more equal than others
Post by: The Rabbi on April 06, 2006, 11:46:50 AM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on April 06, 2006, 12:50:24 PM
he says she has bridges, over passes & ramps named for her and her father through out her dominion
Post by: spinr on April 06, 2006, 01:36:34 PM
That'd be cool...
Post by: Felonious Monk/Fignozzle on April 06, 2006, 03:07:43 PM
McKinney is not far behind.
She's drunk the Kool-Aid that our society has been serving since about 1972, where as long as you have high self-esteem, you can do or be anything your delusional mind manufactures for you to be.
Post by: grampster on April 06, 2006, 03:15:10 PM
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on April 06, 2006, 04:32:22 PM
Post by: Matthew Carberry on April 06, 2006, 04:58:30 PM
Which is the standard "well, we were both wrong but he was wrong first" defense used by those who don't want to apologize but are being forced to.
Post by: Silver Bullet on April 06, 2006, 05:20:17 PM
Post by: jefnvk on April 06, 2006, 05:22:58 PM
Post by: griz on April 06, 2006, 06:04:46 PM
I am sorry that she was ever elected to office. Please forgive.....well let's not go there.
Post by: roo_ster on April 06, 2006, 06:36:47 PM
Oh, never mind...
Post by: publius on April 07, 2006, 12:50:56 AM
...got locked up!!!
Looks like her bodyguard thinks he's still a policeman, and the Hill cops are worried he might be armed and go postal.
Birds of a feather. We have a congresscritter asserting her nonexistent authority to breeze through checkpoints without identifying herself, and we have a goon asserting his nonexistent law enforcement authority.
Egomaniacs who are drawn to power are dangerous.
Post by: The Rabbi on April 07, 2006, 05:36:10 AM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on April 07, 2006, 06:10:35 AM
New McKinney Capitol Hill Scuffle
(WSB Radio) There's been another Washington scuffle involving Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
A man identified by her office as the Dekalb County lawmaker's driver claimed to be a police officer Thursday after he was bumped by Channel 2 Washington Bureau reporter Scott McFarland.
The man, a former LA police officer, told McFarland -- quote -- "I'm going to put your ass in jail the next time you push me." When McFarland asked if he was a Capitol police officer, the man said no. He did say he was a police officer, but would not identify what department he worked for.
The head of the Capitol Hill Police union says it's troubling that the man identified himself as a police officer, even though he is not recognized as an officer in the District of Columbia.
Capitol Police Officer Andy Maybo says it is unusual for members of Congress to be guarded by anyone other than Capitol police. He says an investigation will determine if the man has the authority to be on government property without prior authorization.
On Thursday, McKinney apologized for her run-in last week with a Capitol Police officer.
Post by: garrettwc on April 07, 2006, 06:45:38 AM
Post by: Stand_watie on April 07, 2006, 09:19:00 PM
Quote from: The Rabbi
I have noticed that she is getting no back-up from her fellow Dems. I saw this AM that the Congressional Black Caucus is urging her to put it behind as quickly as possible.
Honestly as much as I (generally speaking) loathe politicians, think about what she is doing to all her fellow Representatives (of whom there are a greater % of decent human beings than Senators).There probably are a couple of genuine racists in the Capitol Police, and there are probably a couple of genuine non-racists to whom blacks all look alike, just as there are plenty of Sudanese and Japanese to whom all redheads with green eyes look alike (Heck, I'm as white as can be, and if you put too many redheads with green eyes in the same room with me I even start to get confused as to who's who), anyhoo - if her little "do't you day'er mess wit' me, you racist s.o.b., I's be a idepedant, perr'owd, stro'ong black womans" act had been successfully pulled off those genuine racists and genuinely non-racist-but-can't-tell-them-apart capitol police would be letting through the checkpoint every black between 20 and 80 who walked fast around the checkpoint and snarled "I'm a congressman/woman" over their shoulder at the police who challenged them. As a matter of fact if it had worked the capitol police would have been justified (IMHO) in letting a few of their (locally known, annoying but mostly harmless) vagrants and winos wander in to start disrupting things and begging change to make their point.
IF McKinney really wanted to make amends, she would announce "Mea Culpa", and offer to pay the Police Officer assaulted a reasonable fee for his pain/suffering, and more importantly job related emotional stress pain, offer a 10,000 dollar grant (paid out of her own pocket) to the capitol hill police department to offer overtime to their officers to sit in the House procedings and memorize faces and who's who, and offer to plead guilty to the DA, and throw herself on the mercy of the judge regarding her penalty for simple assault mitigated by her extensive making of amends (and under those conditions, in DC, she could probably expect about a 5 dollar fine, possibly a medal of honor). She'd then begin a "friendship with the peons who protect us" campaign in the house to encourage all house members to make it a habit to have numerous capitol police officers invited and encouraged to attend by the Capitol police leadership, as guests, each of their 'wine and dine and meet the bigwigs' shindigs that occur locally. I guarantee that free food, booze and chatting with bigshots on a friendly level would bring almost every capitol police officer into a pretty intimate knowledge of exactly what all the congressmen/women look like.