http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/....ap/index.html
Not sure how much you all have heard, if anything, about Cynthia McKinney's incident on the Hill where she allegedly hit a police officer.
I have mixed feelings on this one. She is claiming racial profiling, which is a problem, but on the other hand, you can't hit an officer. However, the report states that the officer reached out and grabbed her. Now, I have had the unforutnate experience of hearing some rather unprofessional language and seeing the same type of actions by police officers, so I might understand the frustration of being asked to do something if and when the officer should know who I am (if he should know) and THEN having the officer touch me in an offensive manner. I might have to lay one on him too. But, since we weren' t there, its hard to know which was the appropriate action to take at that time.
The other point, though, that makes me a little uneasy is how quickly the republicans made a resolution supporting the officer!
I mean, how do THEY know that the officer didn't act unprofessionally and racially profile her? If he did, would the officer still be subject to respect and support by them? Interesting.
Anyway, I just don't know if this was the right time and/or incident for McKinney to bring up race and all that if she wasn't wearing her pin and the officer had cause to ask her to go through the detector. However, I get really irritated when as soon as anyone does highlight a racial incident, even if it is in their own perception, the chorus sings that race is not an issue automatically. That is like the immediate response whenever things happen and it is so frustrating. No one knows what happened in the incident so just like I can't automatically claim that it was a racist action by the officer, other folks who were not there shouldn't automatically assume it wasn't.
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