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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (6777)	4/5/2006 12:56:00 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) of 71588

McKinney seems clearly to have been in the wrong. The officer approached her when she walked around a metal detector. As a member of Congress she is entitled to do so, but she was not wearing the lapel pin that identifies her as a member, and thus she committed a breach of security. (Slate reported in 2002 that "she refuses to wear her member's pin.") McKinney does not claim to have identified herself before the officer approached, so that as far as he knew, he could have been dealing with a terrorist or a dangerous psychotic. Nor has she publicly denied that she struck the officer. Indeed, when her lawyer says "she reacted instinctively in an effort to defend herself," he seems to be justifying the alleged assault rather than denying it. She seems to think she is above the law...she gets in one mess after another..

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