I really didn't know quite where to begin on this one. Perhaps this time justice will be done and they'll put this woman in jail for a few days. Goodness knows, if you or I hit an officer of the law, not only would we still be in jail for it, we'd have gotten a solid beating (...which, in all honesty probably wouldn't be so terrible as long as no permanent damage was done. Don't hit cops!) before any cuffs were slapped on.

In any case, Mrs McKinney is a US rep who decided she was going to simply waltz past one of the security checkpoints in the capitol building, one of the checkpoints that are there just to protect people like her I'll add, when one of the police officers who was on duty tried to stop her because he didn't know who she was. She promptly turned around and struck the officer in the chest with her cell phone. Note that at the time, she'd just gotten a new hairstyle (which is something McKinney has been trying to turn into a play on words) so she might have been hard to recognize, but more importantly she wasn't wearing the mandatory badge or less formal legislator's pin. Basically, she might as well have barged in in street clothes and demanded to be treated like she owned the place.

Now, this would have been a relatively simple thing to just hush up and let blow over, but apparently just getting special treatment (in that she wasn't immediately arrested for assaulting an officer, which can only be due to the fact that she's a rep) wasn't enough for her. Even though the officer was only doing his job in stopping her, McKinney and her lawyer held a press conference where they made threats of hauling the officer up on criminal and civil charges, in addition McKinney referring to the incident as "inappropriate touching" of her "black, female person". What's sad is that McKinney had already been given an apology that there was even any confusion in the first place. ...and for those who missed it, let me reaffirm... McKinney is claiming she was stopped because she's black, and that this is "racial profiling".

Some people just don't know when to quit.

Clearly the officer's superior is a stand-up guy, because this kind of challenge basically means that they must investigate, and right at the top of the list is why was this woman not arrested in the first place for assaulting the officer.

If you want to see how far into "complete bullshit" this has gotten, click on the video links about halfway down the page, where McKinney's white lawyer (until then we'd only been shown her black lawyer, she has two) while sitting right next to her states repeatedly that "no one knows what actually happened" although I'm thinking that quite possibly his client was probably somewhere nearby. By the way, the police aren't really going to discuss it all that much until their investigation is complete because that's the normal way they work--which has been leaving McKinney and her lawyers plenty of time to run all over talking to, or actually not talking to reporters.

I dearly hope they throw the book at her, both for assaulting an officer whose sole reason for being there was to protect her, as well as for daring to pull this race card bullshit to the media. I'm not sure if the latter is actually a prosecuteable offense, but at least I'm willing to let judges sort it out instead of hauling off and hitting McKinney.

McKinney prepares to waste Supreme Court time to argue her specialness