F.O.P. Calls For Probe Of McKinney Scuffle
Police labor officials, angry over a federal grand jury’s refusal to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney for assaulting a police officer, said Monday said they want the House ethics committee to review her conduct.
And they said the grand jury’s decision last week sent the message that “it’s okay to hit a police officer.”
I agree. When the grand jury decided not to indict Perp Rep. McKinney for assaulting Officer McKenna, they made a huge mistake. If it were you or I that struck Officer McKenna, we would have been standing before a judge the very next day. Allowing anyone to strike a police officer sends the wrong message, especially when that anyone is a member of the House of Representatives.
“We hope that members of Congress will review her actions in light of their rules within their own ethics committee,” Andrew Maybo, chairman of the U.S. Capitol Police Labor Committee, told reporters Monday at a news conference in Washington.
Maybo said the Fraternal Order of Police would send a letter later this week to the ethics committee suggesting that McKinney’s behavior violated an item in the chamber’s ethics manual that calls for members to “conduct (themselves) at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.”
We all know Cynthia McKinney has no ethics or credibility. Her fellow members of the House know this as well.
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