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April 04, 2006
I'd Like to Remind the...um...Strident Rep. McKinney
...why the Capitol Police are touchy about identification.
Investigators are still attempting to explain how and why a lone gunman opened fire in the crowded U.S. Capitol on Friday, killing two police officers and wounding a tourist. The accused gunman has been identified as Russell Weston, age 41. Weston shot his way past Capitol security on Friday afternoon and entered a private area housing the offices of the Republican leadership in Congress....Witnesses said panic broke out after the gunman stormed through the Document Door entrance usually reserved for lawmakers and their staff at 1540 EDT. The gunman entered the building but walked around the metal detector just inside the entrance. According to several sources, Chestnut asked him to go back through the detector but was shot in the chest with a .38-caliber handgun. Witnesses said he turned down a short corridor and pushed through a door marked "Do Not Enter" which leads to a group of offices used by senior Republican representatives.
That was a white man doing the gate running and the shooting, instead of...
McKinney, 51, scuffled with a police officer on March 29 when she entered a House office building without her identifying lapel pin and did not stop when asked. Several police sources said the officer, who was not identified, asked her three times to stop. When she kept going, he placed a hand somewhere on her and she hit him, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
...but the paragraphs describing both initial confrontations sound pretty damn close. She needs to STFU and then someone needs to vote her arrogant dumb a$$ out the door.
Posted by tree hugging sister at April 4, 2006 03:26 PM