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Rep. McKinney Now Backs Capitol Police Bill
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who could face charges for assaulting a Capitol police officer in late March, has signed on as a co-sponsor of a House resolution praising the work of the Capitol police. The Georgia Democrat became one of 40 co-sponsors of a bill designed to "express the gratitude and appreciation” of the House for the Capitol police’s "professionalism and dedication.” But the other 39 co-sponsors signed on in early April, when the resolution was first introduced as a way of chiding McKinney for claiming that the confrontation with the police officer was racially motivated, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. McKinney allegedly assaulted an officer who refused to let her bypass a Capitol Hill security checkpoint.
Story Continues Below By one police account, the congresswoman – who routinely does not wear a lapel pin identifying her as a member of Congress –walked around a metal detector, and the officer asked her several times to stop. When she didn’t stop, the officer tried to stop her, and McKinney then struck the officer, according to that account. A grand jury is considering whether to indict McKinney on assault charges. McKinney was defeated in 2002 after she implied that the Bush administration might have had advance notice of the 9/11 attacks, but she won her seat back two years later.
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