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McKinney: "In Congress While Black" (Lawyer sez she's a victim)(Abstract)
WXIA-TV Atlanta ^ | 3.31.06 | Michael King

Posted on 03/31/2006 2:11:45 PM PST by mhking

Representative Cynthia McKinney’s lawyer says that she is simply a victim of “being in Congress while black.”

McKinney planned a late-afternoon news conference in Washington to discuss the altercation she had with a Capitol police officer on Wednesday. Her lawyer, James W. Myart Jr. says that her problems with police are racial in nature.

“Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin,” Myart said. “Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 109th; justdamn; mckinney; racecard
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To: maggief
Presser coming up at 5:30 WITH Danny Glover.

Another Dem profile in courage. She has to bring reinforcements. And the best she could do is Glover? Snort. Where's Pelosi, who said what McKinney did was no big deal? Hiding under a desk somewhere with Russ Feingeld?

21 posted on 03/31/2006 2:21:03 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mhking
In a draft of a statement that McKinney did not release, she said the officer "bodyblocked" her during the incident, and she blamed his failure to recognize her on a recent makeover. "It is ... a shame that while I conduct the country's business, I have to stop and call the police to tell them that I've changed my hairstyle so that I'm not harassed at work," McKinney said in the draft, which was obtained by WSB-TV of Atlanta and posted on its Web site. An official close to McKinney said the statement was a "work product" never intended to be released.

It was the new Don King hairdo that caused the probem.


22 posted on 03/31/2006 2:21:06 PM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: mhking

What a gift. Pelosi had both fingers crossed yesterday saying the thing was no big deal.

Like clockwork, she had to go racial.

Everybody know where this is going?

Time for the popcorn and comfy couches as she gives away what the D's seemed to gain from the Dubai Ports Deal.

Security is important, but exceptions need to be made for black congresspeople.

Wow. Defeat from the jaws of victory.


23 posted on 03/31/2006 2:21:24 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: mhking
a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement

Who slapped who again?

24 posted on 03/31/2006 2:21:28 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: maggief

I can't believe Howard University wants to be associated with this.


25 posted on 03/31/2006 2:21:58 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mhking

This is the gift that keeps on giving. LOL...


26 posted on 03/31/2006 2:23:07 PM PST by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie

Another victim who doesn't obey the rules. Wear the ID you are supposed to and if you are harrassed obeying the rules that is a headline story. As we're told when we're going through airport security, it's for your own good..!


27 posted on 03/31/2006 2:25:05 PM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: mewzilla
FNC to carry presser live.
28 posted on 03/31/2006 2:25:11 PM PST by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: mhking

Just checked the few threads at DUh about this. The mental patients are almost to the man defending her ONLY because she is a black liberal. Its so gross how racist these people are. If a white Republican man or woman did it, they would make it worse than the Holocuast. Its scary that people like this vote.


29 posted on 03/31/2006 2:25:17 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: mhking

Another great example of an anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-life Democratic Crime Syndicate member.


30 posted on 03/31/2006 2:25:42 PM PST by PGalt
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31 posted on 03/31/2006 2:25:50 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Democratshavenobrains

John Gibson just said she's about to do a news conference.


32 posted on 03/31/2006 2:26:07 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: mhking
Her lawyer, James W. Myart Jr. says that her problems with police are racial in nature.

Of course. What else could they be?

33 posted on 03/31/2006 2:26:23 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: mhking

She is what I will not type.


34 posted on 03/31/2006 2:26:42 PM PST by bmwcyle (We got permits, yes we DO! We got permits, how 'bout YOU?;))
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To: maggief

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(It's good to be in the driver's seat)


36 posted on 03/31/2006 2:28:01 PM PST by mhking ("I make my livin' on the evening news...")
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To: mhking

Spoken like a true 'quota-filler' from day one. I wonder if she's sued her way to the top like a lot of people who otherwise couldn't make it on merit.


37 posted on 03/31/2006 2:28:21 PM PST by Looking4Truth (Radical Muslims and Illegal immigrants: Too stupid to create so they invade or destroy.)
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To: mhking

Really? What percentage of entrances to Congress of black Congressmen end up in altercations with the police?


38 posted on 03/31/2006 2:28:22 PM PST by thoughtomator (Since all politicians understand is money, I donate ONLY to those who oppose illegal immigration)
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To: mhking

Thanks. :)


39 posted on 03/31/2006 2:29:37 PM PST by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: thoughtomator

Press conference live on Fox News.

CNN couldn't bother.


40 posted on 03/31/2006 2:29:39 PM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
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