Rep. McKinney apologizes for scuffle with cop

[cal04]

After raising specter of racism, she now expresses 'sincere regret'


Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., expressed “sincere regret” Thursday for her altercation with a Capitol police officer, and offered an apology to the House.

“There should not have been any physical contact in this incident,” McKinney said in brief remarks on the House floor. “I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation and I apologize.” McKinney’s comments came after the case had been referred to a federal grand jury for possible prosecution.


She had previously insisted she had done nothing wrong, and accused police of “racial profiling.” She is African-American and the police officer is white.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12187229/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mckinney_scuffle

[marylanddem]

1. the story that refused to die...

[Ian David]

2. Call today: Resolution commedning Dick Cheney's Secret Service Detail

Call today: Resolution commedning Dick Cheney's Secret Service Detail

I just called Rep. Stephen Lynch to suggest a resolution to commend Dick Cheney's Secret Service detail for keeping local authorities from interviewing him for 16 hours after getting drunk and shooting a man in the face.

I suggest we all call our various Congress-critters and do the same:

Congress:

202-224-3121
888-818-6641
800-426-8073

Cynthia McKinney should have just gotten drunk and shot the guy in the face.

They would have given her 16 hours to sober-up before the cops could talk to her, and then the whole thing would have gone away.

She could have said she thought he was a quail.

And then the cop would have apologized.

And she would be making jokes about it at the Grid Iron Club.

Almost as funny as, "Those WMDs have gotta be somewhere..."

[The Magistrate]

3. If She Had Done This A Couple Of Days Ago, Ma'am

No one would be discussing the matter today; it would have dropped off the radar within hours. Apologies cost nothing, and often yield great benefit: there is no sounder investment on the planet.

[RethugAssKicker]

9. she did apologize....

she said the same thing... that she regretted that this ever happened

[aikoaiko]

10. expressing regret is not the same thing as apologizing

you can regret without being at fault, but when you apologize you are admitting fault. Big difference.

Good for Mckinney for apolgizing and dropping her race baiting BS excuses.

[yodermon]

18. I disagree.

There is a grand jury investigating her, and any apologizing on her part, then or now, would not change the fact that she will probably be indicted. This will be news fodder for the freeper press regardless of her public statements.

[bryant69]

Good.

that's a good move on her part.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Lost-in-FL]

4. Thank God...

she didn't shot a Lawyer on the face.:eyes:

[SteppingRazor]

5. If she had just done this to begin with...

this story probably would have gone away quickly. Ah well.

[fishnfla]

6. Whats this? Accepting responsibility? Apologizing?

Well, I never!

Whats going to happen to all those wonderful flame wars? :cry:

[DanCa]

11. Good point. Look like a lot of people around here owe people apologies.

I am glad I stayed out of thing.

[paul_fromatlanta]

7. It did not sound anything like accepting responsibility

[aikoaiko]

14. to apologize implies fault, while regret does not

This was a good change for McKinney -- her race baiting was bckfiring for her and the party.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=apologize

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=regret

[paul_fromatlanta]

15. She did not sound like she was accepting any fault

[aikoaiko]

19. oh, you mean literally sound -- could be I only read about it.

I didn't actually hear her say it.

[bullwinkle428]

8. Has Cheney offered a SINCERE apology like this yet? Not just a

standard "grrrr...I'm really sorry that Whittington's withered old face got in the way of my shotgun blast...grrrrr"...

[npincus]

12. better late than never...

[jsamuel]

13. thank God, much better

I was waiting for her to do that. This is a personal incident between a congresswoman and an officer and needs little attention when compared with everything else going on in the country.

[BlooInBloo]

16. Wow. What low-down people DUers can be...

Looking thru this thread, I conclude that it's not enough to apologize - her "crime" is now UNFORGIVABLE because she didn't apologize SOON ENOUGH.

Apparently a black woman grovelling is the only thing some of "us" will accept.

Or maybe even that won't do it.

[jsamuel]

17. many aren't saying that though

But apologizing is the right thing to do. It was a misunderstanding. No matter how threatened she was or how wrong the cop was, she is doing the right thing by apologizing for the physical contact.

[aikoaiko]

20. well there was the race baiting and self-defense excuse too.

[KG]

22. seems some DUers won't be happy till she physically kisses their butt

:eyes:

[matcom]

21. I also accept some DUers apologies

apology accepted