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 encounter began when McKinney 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.
If the CBC, now becoming infamous for protecting lawmaking lawbreakers within their own ethnic group, did not support McKinney, you know her arguement must have been weak. Yet, with so many witnesses to the assault, methinks U.S. Attorney Kenneth Wainstein didn't try to hard to make his case here.
Doubt we'd see similar circumstances if you or I had thrown those punches...
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