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Originally posted by TonyB06
From what I've read, McKinney was not wearing the Congressional lapel pin, identifying her as a member of Congress and entitling her to walk past the security unchecked. That being the case, she, like anybody else, was subject to being stopped.
That should have been the end of it, but I read that words were exchanged and she may have been grabbed as she tried to go past. In the days post Sept. 11, security being what it is, I have to side with the officer (unless other conflicting information emerges).
As for the resolutions, that's politics (shrug). Any side will do what it can get any advantage it thinks it can. <---that's why the general public has so little respect for politics now.
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A while ago I heard a black congress man say that he was alway checked for his pin and was stopped if he forgot it. He explained that his white counterparts would forget their pins and where never stopped or questioned.
I want to say it was Jackson Jr., but I could be wrong.