Congress: Look to New York City

[acroyear]

From a comment at scienceblogs: Rep. McKinney and the police officer should apologize to each other and shake hands, and then everyone should get on with their lives. This whole incident is considerably smaller than the sum of its parts.

I'd just LOVE for that to be the case, but the shooting incident in New York City's City Hall tells me otherwise. Security at a place like the House should be *absolute*. If you don't have what credentials you're supposed to be carrying, you are pulled aside, period.

The day someone can just yell "I'm a congressman" and run past the gates without any interference is the day congress itself gets assassinated.

I hate it, but New York's incident showed us exactly what can happen and McKinney for her "I'm the race victim here" arrogance is simply asking for her own death and causing EVERYBODY to miss the real story here.

The guard did his job.  If you don't have what you're supposed to have, you don't get in.  Period.

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

just google for it.

long story short, she (a black congresswoman from georgia) wasn't wearing her pin and still tried to get through the congress entrance (the one that avoids the metal detectors). The guard stopped her, she gets all huffy, complains about racial discrimination and how she *should* be recognized by face, and slaps and/or hits the guard.

capitol police are filing charges, and she (and half the blacks in the south) are all saying its racial discrimination and playing the victim card.

she's wrong.

[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

She's wrong that she should have slipped by (subject to my full concurrence with thatliardesmond, J.'s opinion).

But the Capitol Police pressing criminal charges? Even if the constitution doesn't prohibit prosecution of a Member of Congress for an assault in the Capitol, it seemas a bit of an overreaction, no?

[rsteachout.livejournal.com]

She slapped/hit a police officer who was doing his duty. Others who assault and batter an officer are charged. She was wrong in the first place and made it worse.