No thread for Virginia McKinney, congresswoman who allegedly hit a security guard who failed to recognize her after she walked past security checkpoint?

Cops Seek Arrest Warrant Against McKinney

POSTED: 3:40 pm EDT April 3, 2006
UPDATED: 7:18 am EDT April 4, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Capitol Police today submitted their case against Representative Cynthia McKinney to the U.S. Attorney's office, which will consider whether the Georgia congresswoman will face charges for tangling with a law enforcement officer last week.

Principal assistant U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips declined to say whether the referral included a recommended charge against the six-term Georgia Democrat or when a warrant for her arrest might be issued.

McKinney spokesman Coz Carson acknowledged the investigation, saying a statement will follow once they know where the investigation is going.

For her part, McKinney said she expects to represent her suburban Atlanta district for many years.

Black clergy and lawmakers came the defense of the firebrand congresswoman today. 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 natural style.

The 51-year-old McKinney 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.

McKinney refused to comment today about her confrontation with the police officer.

Instead her supporters used a news conference this morning at the Community Church of Christ on Cascade Road to attack security procedures at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

They blamed the incident between McKinney and an unidentified police officer on racism. Speakers said the officer failed to recognize McKinney as a member of congress and grabbed her because she is black.

They also ridiculed the use of pins to identify members of congress. McKinney admits she was not wearing her pin when she was stopped by the officer when she bypassed a security checkpoint.

McKinney made a statement listing accomplishments of her office and scolding the local media for concentrating coverage of the slapping incident.

She refused to take any questions from reporters.

Supporters included Democratic state legislators Representative "Able" Mable Thomas and Senator Vincent Fort. Her supporters pledged to stand by McKinney.

McKinney held a news conference Friday in Washington in which she said "This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman."

McKinney, also a Democrat, declined to discuss the incident further since she still may be charged with striking the officer after she entered a House office building unrecognized and did not stop when asked. She and her two lawyers refused to say during the Washington news conference whether she hit the officer or how he touched her inappropriately.

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a. Stop watching The Situation Room.
b. Her name is Cynthia McKinney.
c. Stop watching The Situation Room.

i'm fucking coming over.

It was my first situation room. I just got cable last week!

It's Cynthia, she's one of my favorite congressional reps., and I'm afraid she's given an enormous gift to the Republicans. I am ambivalent about some of the things she is saying about this, but apparently there has been a pattern of police/security in DC (at the White House, etc. not at private companies) not recognizing her, which I imagine would get pretty annoying if it seems like it's only happening to her, one of the only black women in Congress.

cynthia mckinney is frequently self-contradictory & needs to chill with the anti-israel shit, but so heroic in so many ways - campaigning to declassify files on 9/11 & the assassination of MLK, working for union & miners rights in africa, encouraging american distribution of international news instead of domestic propaganda, challenging sexism & racism in the house, & quoting pac while speaking at king memorial last year. her principles are a huge asset to congress & and im proud to say she represents GA.

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She's not afraid to take on the Bush administration very directly. She has also openly expressed the opinion that Bush had foreknowledge of 9/11. (I realize this will just make her appear more delusional for some of you, but she's joined by a growing number of others.) I believe she was strongly opposed to the invasion of Iraq.

I think there have been other things over the years, but I don't remember specifically.

Foreknowledge of 9/11 as in they knew a terrorist attack was likely, or foreknowledge as in they knew that on or around 9/11 hijacked planes would be flown into the WTC and other targets? Big difference.

Also, isn't she considered an anti-Semite?

I'm not a Georgian but I am a leftist, and it's incidents like this that play right into thee hands of the right. I don't think she's an "uppity negro," you stupid dipshit. I'm just reacting to what I saw when she was interviewed, where she came off as stone cold crazy. Look it up, watch it, and then get back to us.

And way to generalize about a large swath of Americans based on one Internet thread, +++++.

As someone regularly incensed by security guards demanding to see my identification when I came into my building, I have sympathy. On the other hand
a) she is one of more than 400 representatives;
b) she is in a building where real security might actually be warranted;
c) she repeatedly refused even to acknowledge security.

She deserves whatever she gets, and doubly so if she hasn't consistently voted against all the Bush administration's alarmist measures. And calling it "racism" is a perfect example of why minority causes generate resentment.

The latter, which is also what I think probably happened. (I also often have the desire to hit people.)

yeah I know "that could never happen! you're a racist apologist etc"

anybody w/street smarts knows that fucking w/the cops when you're in their custody is a losing proposition. save it for court.

Batshit lefty conspiracy tendencies shared by some former Repbublican high-level government officials, uh huh (re: 9/11).

Yeah, the Racial Transitive Property is JUST THAT EASY.

1. Was she normally able to walk through security without her pin because the guards recognized her?

2. Did a guard who normally let her through security suddenly not recognize her because she changed her hair, and he grabbed her thinking that this was a strange black woman walking into Congress?

We're talking about Washington DC security here, so my instinct is to side with McKinny.

"I am absolutely sick and tired of having to have my appearance at the White House validated by white people," wrote McKinney, who later received an apology from the administration. "I don't need to be stopped or questioned because I happen to look like hired help.”

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/mckinney331

I still think she was wrong to hit the cop, I can't defend what she did.

xpost yeah that

it's interesting how you can explain away any of her associations w/anti-semitism yet every slight against her is a racial slur.

So it happened before. So what.I lived on a military base with 150 families and the security guards saw me at least 4 times a day going on and off base, entering and exiting through the main gate. And when we were on a high alert, they had to get the ID card of every person who entered the base. Even residents. Even people whom they saw every day for 3 years. There were times when I didnt have my ID and they waved me thru, but if they had refused me entry (perhaps a new guard was on duty that day and didnt know me) theres nothing I could have or should have done. I was in the wrong.

I have no sympathy.

not trying to "prove" anything. merely suggesting there could be other forces at play along with racism, or heaven forbid, maybe it's a misunderstanding that's spiralled into a racially charged incident. and I don't think you're an asshole, just a little quick on the trigger finger with accusations of racism.

I have frequently embarrassed myself by by having trouble recognizing Asians I definitely should have recognized, and that's despite Asian faces being part of the family thanks to my brother marrying a Japanese woman; and also despite my being able to honestly say I don't think there's no shred of racism in me re: Asians (which I couldn't so confidently or categorically say about blacks, unfortunately). I think it probably has a lot to do with what you are surrounded with early on in your life. Not that I really want to take this into a confessional, heart-baring exercise.

This kind of bullshit enrages me - as a DC resident for six years, I've had to gain credentials to access Congress, the Library of Congress, other law firms, other governmental buildings, etc. For this woman to think that, as a member of a 400+ member body, she can avoid the simple and easily followed security protocols in the US CAPITOL, it just shows an overblown sense of entitlement. That smacks of a lack of perspective and clouded judgment.

I wonder how common this is though (for other congresspersons--what is the correct gender-neutral term?).

This was Washington, though, which isn't exactly Whitey Central?

But how many black female congressvolk are there? I would still expect her to stand out.

"Though I'm not a politician I know all my rights / I had a fight with a cop just last night"

I don't really agree about John McCain (or whomever).

And yes, there are more important things. I'm mostly interested in the story, to begin with, because I'm sorry she apparently snapped and sorry that that's going to make it harder for her to do anything productive as a congresswoman.

uhm, xposts

Anyway, I gather she just made some statement of apology on the House floor.

Bitter ROFFLE at CNN.

Can't do worse than some now in there!

1 - it amazes me that after all this time ethan still hasn\'t learned that his whole aggro schtick doesn\'t, like, open anyone\'s eyes, or raise anyone\'s consciousness. instead, it tends to drive people further into racism, further into hostility, further into antipathy.

or at least, that\'s been the effect on me, quite frankly: i feel warier (and wearier) of the whole issue, and i feel like i\'ve become a person less likely to speak up against racism, or against a racial injustice, as a DIRECT consequence of reading ilx and ethan\'s posts. and it\'s not just the \"i find him so grating that anything he stands for, i\'m against\" thing, either.

which sucks because sometimes ethan posts some seriously funny and observant shit, but only like 15% of the time.

2 - wait, so about the bicurious link, jess isn\'t hinting that he and ethan sucked each other off, is he? (see 3333333333\'s post)

maybe this is old news but it\'s kind of a SHOCKAH to me, that is if that\'s the clue i\'m supposed to be getting.

sorry for logging out but i\'m a pussy.

xpost yes because "i hate blacks more" is exactly what i wrote. well done.

and

http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/CARI.McKinney.gif

from here

There's some weird level of cartoon-convention suspension of disbelief going on there that's kind of hurting my head.

poor guy, makes you wonder how with his diminutive stature he can guard anything at all.

American Blackout
Directed by Ian Inaba

This stylish, intelligent, and timely documentary examines the disenfranchisement of the black vote through the lens of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's (D-Georgia) political career.

George W. Bush’s narrow victory in 2000 launched an historic investigation into Florida’s election process. Mainstream media focused on dysfunctional ballots and Supreme Court litigation, but McKinney investigated the private company hired by Florida to generate voter lists, which effectively strangled the black vote and handed Bush an unlikely victory. Inaba reveals how black political power is systematically squelched, including the slander McKinney endured when she stood up to the Bush administration on 9/11 and Iraq, and political machinations that disempowered the black vote in the Georgia Democratic primaries and the presidential election in 2004.

American Blackout shows how African Americans are fighting a war inside our country for their right to vote and Inaba reminds us how incredibly important this fight is to the fate of all Americans.

http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=77

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070701/capt.a33d8f7f2e20433a9b0a7a7740584e5c.cynthia_mckinney__gasm104.jpg?x=260&y=345&sig=GVre3WCytKrO26SnCfIg1A--

Former U.S. Rep. McKinney enters presidential race as Green
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is running for president as a member of the Green Party, which she says shares her views on ending the Iraq war, protecting the environment and other issues.

McKinney, who served five terms in Congress before losing her seat to a fellow Democrat last year, declared her candidacy in a video posted late Sunday on the Web site of a group that had been drafting her to run.

"The Democrats are no different than their Republican counterparts, eat out of the hands of corrupt lobbyists and feed at the same corporate trough. I am proud to say that the Green Party is my new political home," McKinney said in the taped announcement.

McKinney's name will appear on ballots in California, Illinois, Arkansas and several other states holding presidential primaries on Feb. 5, according to www.runcynthiarun.org.

oh no

So, the figure wasn't six million after all?? What about those punished and even imprisoned for saying so?? Is this a "You can't say, but I can" kind of thing?? https://t.co/14bHxV0hOX

— Cynthia McKinney PhD (@cynthiamckinney) May 16, 2020

great revive

conspiracy shit always boils down to this sooner or later it seems

there is huge distinction between challenging a genocidal death toll between 5m+ and 6m+ and denying that it ever happened. I'm not saying I agree with the historian quoted in that Haaretz piece and even if he was right it still wouldn't vindicate the type of scumbags who have fallen foul of Holocaust Denial laws like this Cynthia McK seems to be suggesting.

welp
*fills in “rampant antisemitism from a (formerly) famous black person” square on the “2020 is a cesspool” bingo card*

I looked up Robert David Steele, the right-wing conspiracy maniac recently discussed in the batshit rightwing cartoons thread, and on his website he advertises a podcast or lecture series or something or other where his co-host is...Cynthia McKinney.