Black Burka Clad Woman Wearing U.S. Military Insignia Booted From Obama Event

Based on Pool, AP and Twitter reports | Saturday, May 5, 2012 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

A strange happening at the Obama campaign event at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond today. The media pool reports mentioned a woman wearing a black burka who was removed from the event. To make things more interesting, the pool reporter says the person was wearing U.S. military insignia.

From the AP:

VCU police reported that a heckler was removed from the arena, taken outside and released. A police dispatcher didn't know what the woman had yelled.

According to a White House pool report, photographers observed a woman wearing a black burka being escorted out of the gym by Richmond police and other security officials. The woman appeared to be wearing U.S. military pins and was carrying book. She cooperated with police, according to the report.

From Twitter:

Amie Parnes, White House reporter for The Hill:

As I wrote in my pool reports, a woman wearing a black burka was escorted out of the Richmond rally by police during Obama's speech.

7:26 PM - 5 May 12 via Mobile Web

Soon after that Tweet, Parnes retweeted a Tweet by West Wing Report about her pool report:

Pool reporter @AmieParnes studied pool photos of the woman. She "appears to be wearing U.S. military insignia" and "had a book in her hand"

Retweeted by Amie Parnes 7:12 PM - 5 May 12 via web

Nothing more about this so far. I haven't found the photos of the incident.

[novemberslady]

nation of islam?

[lightman]

A police dispatcher didn't know what the woman had yelled.

"Allahu FUBAR" ?

[bicyclerepair]

How’d they know it was a she?

[hope]

Hahahaha, wow!

[RitaOK]

Looks black to me....

[big'ol_freeper]

Obama prefers to wear the Burka himself.

[Larry381]

Would Laz hit it?

[GOPJ]

Obama’s in luck - the MSM will pretend this never happened - and if it did happen, that it was too complicated to report on... and if it's not too complicated, then it's ‘old news’... or some such nonsense.

[philman_36]

Now all of the photogs can release theirs since that one is out.

The second link doesn't work any longer TA3.

[philman_36]

The Obama campaign event was crawling with media and not one has the guts to report the full details. Get up off of your knees!
OUCH!

[philman_36]

From UPI...
Obamas campaign in Ohio, Virginia
During Obama's speech in Richmond, photographers observed a woman in a black burka being escorted out of the gym by city police and other security officials. She appeared to have a collection of U.S. military insignia pinned to her garment and a book in her hand.

No pics.

[InvisibleChurch]

whole lotta profilin’ goin’ on

[fella]

This is strange,with all of the media with cameras there and of course all the cell phones there and there's not 1 video of this event.

[MadelineZapeezda]

???? I never questioned its blackness....just said it didn’t look like a woman to me

[FR_addict]

I couldn't get the second picture to display, but got the first one to work. I think these might disappear from the internet, since it seems to show the Obama campaign in a bad light.

[RummyChick]

this picture looks like a man to me
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/143931877.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789215AB089EE596C6588496564AC7BCBFD85CF9E9CF83D6B39F74F2728C433FB7629E30A760B0D811297

[kristinn]

By Eva Russo, Richmond Times-Dispatch:

[kristinn]

Local TV news article by WTVR-6 adds that woman not arrested and Secret Service is investigating.

[philman_36]

Some rather well developed upper arms for a woman.