This would have been a minor thing if McKinney hadn't started screeching racism. Now it's moving on to a grand jury.
No one is above the security requirements. Period. Ignoring security or abusing it makes for poor security. The police get tired of being ignored by the "privileged" of that office area, and sooner or later will shrug off when someone dodges and ignores them. It's not right, but it is human nature. If there was no special treatment for the "privileged" then there would be less likelihood that there would be a breach in protocol. Places with real security don't allow different classes of security.
The political games have started on this as well. No big surprise there. Personally, I think she deserves all the shame that can be piled on her. Not that that will have any affect.
U. S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said Wednesday that Rep. Cynthia McKinney turned an officer's failure to recognize her into a criminal matter when she failed to stop at his request, and then struck him.My amazement is the complaints by people that the police officer grabbed her was inappropriate. I don't see how that has any logic. You just had a person bypass a checkpoint with no identification and ignored verbal attempts to have her stop, what was left? Or should they have just let her walk on?
"He reached out and grabbed her and she turned around and hit him," Gainer said on CNN. "Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, 'I'm a congressman' and then everybody moves on."
No one is above the security requirements. Period. Ignoring security or abusing it makes for poor security. The police get tired of being ignored by the "privileged" of that office area, and sooner or later will shrug off when someone dodges and ignores them. It's not right, but it is human nature. If there was no special treatment for the "privileged" then there would be less likelihood that there would be a breach in protocol. Places with real security don't allow different classes of security.
The political games have started on this as well. No big surprise there. Personally, I think she deserves all the shame that can be piled on her. Not that that will have any affect.
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Personally, they should treat her exactly the same way they would me if I had tried to walk past a security checkpoint without proper ID on display and then struck the officer that tried to stop me. I suspect my arrest, in that situation, wouldn't even make the news.
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