Georgia Congresswoman Criticized For Crying Racism
WASHINGTON
For nearly a week, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., and her lawyers had insisted she had been assaulted and had done nothing wrong during an incident in which she hit a Capitol police officer who tried to stop her from entering a Capitol building. She is Black, and the police officer is White.
But on Thursday, what had been labeled “racial profiling” and “inappropriate touching,” suddenly became a “misunderstanding.”
With a grand jury investigating and little support from House of Representatives colleagues, McKinney reversed course, saying, “I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation, and I apologize,” during a brief appearance on the House floor. “There should not have been any physical contact in this incident.”
Her characterization of the event as racism could be raising more controversy than the act itself.
