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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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This thing won't quiet down...and I'm as busy as a one-armed paperhanger here in the newsroom...
1 posted on 03/31/2006 2:11:46 PM PST by mhking
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To: mhking
Ms. McKinney is just a victim

Can be said of all the DemonRATS!! Victims of GWB and the Bushies - Impeach, Impeach, I say Impeach!! /sarcasm

2 posted on 03/31/2006 2:13:12 PM PST by p23185
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To: mhking

Anyone know why was this morning's presser was deep-sixed? Was this going to be the strategy all along, or were they going to try something else this morning and decided against it?


4 posted on 03/31/2006 2:14:02 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mhking

An embarrasment to humanity.


5 posted on 03/31/2006 2:14:08 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: mhking

As comedian Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid"


6 posted on 03/31/2006 2:14:53 PM PST by msnimje (SAMMY for SANDY --- THAT IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD TRADE!!!)
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To: mhking

Does her lawyer think the police are profiling black terrorists?


7 posted on 03/31/2006 2:15:03 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: mhking

What's your take on this. I think she should be prosecuted and set as an example of how the self appointed ruling class is not above the law. I couldn't care what color the hag is, I want her charged. No one should be above the law.


8 posted on 03/31/2006 2:15:06 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: mhking

These lefties are the dumbest shits in the world!


9 posted on 03/31/2006 2:15:27 PM PST by vpintheak (What's worse, and liberal, or a know it all posing as a Conservative?)
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To: William Creel

Being in Congress while being an idiot, is she going to skate next election?


10 posted on 03/31/2006 2:15:42 PM PST by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: mhking

So the lawyer comes out swinging. Hope this means an arrest is imminent.


11 posted on 03/31/2006 2:16:46 PM PST by Caveman Lawyer (Cluckin' defiance)
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To: mewzilla

Presser coming up at 5:30 WITH Danny Glover.


12 posted on 03/31/2006 2:17:24 PM PST by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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Representative Cynthia McKinney’s lawyer says that she is simply a victim of “being in Congress while black.”

Well...that didn't take long.

13 posted on 03/31/2006 2:17:58 PM PST by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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“Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black.”

Funny how other black members of Congress manage to avoid these scrapes.

15 posted on 03/31/2006 2:18:50 PM PST by dighton
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To: p23185

McKinney is no victim. She's an embarrassment to Georgia's fine citizens, regardless of their ethnicity. McKinney should be indicted and prosecuted for attacking a police officer, just as any one of us would be. Let McKinney tell her race-baiting tale of woe to a judge and jury.


16 posted on 03/31/2006 2:19:25 PM PST by OkeyDokeyOkie
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To: mhking; All

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013606.php


This evening(5:30), McKinney and radical actor Danny Glover will conduct a press conference at Howard University. Can anyone send us a link to video or audio of the press conference?
Posted by John at 03:49 PM


17 posted on 03/31/2006 2:19:46 PM PST by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: safoni

This is outrageously stupid its funny.

Did anyone not see this defense coming 5 hours ago?

It was plain as day what it was going to be.

Throw the female dog in jail, she's a disgrace to the institution she belittles with such charges.


18 posted on 03/31/2006 2:20:06 PM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: mhking

"This thing won't quiet down...and I'm as busy as a one-armed paperhanger here in the newsroom..."

Busier than a one legged man in a butt kickin' contest

Busier than a one eyed dog in a smoke house...


19 posted on 03/31/2006 2:20:10 PM PST by cowtowney
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To: mhking

Is that some kind of slur against one-armed paper hangers? :-)


20 posted on 03/31/2006 2:20:59 PM PST by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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