***1050pm EST update: McKinney responds…”Earlier today I had an unfortunate confrontation with a Capitol Hill Police Officer….I was urgently trying to get to an important meeting on time to fulfill my obligations to my constituents. Unfortunately, the Police Officer did not recognize me as a Member of Congress and a confrontation ensued. I did not have on my Congressional pin but showed the Police Officer my Congressional ID. I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, that of thousands of others, and I appreciate the work that they do. I deeply regret that the incident occurred. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past and I continue to support them now.”***

Stay outta her way!

Loony Democrat Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from Georgia made a few appearances in my last book, but she deserves her own stand-alone case study.

This afternoon, as you’ve all probably heard by now, she allegedly struck a police officer (via WSBTV via Drudge):

Sources tell Channel 2 Action News that McKinney was involved in a disagreement with the officer at a security checkpoint at the Capitol.

One of the sources, a member of the House Republican Conference, confirmed that McKinney struck the officer.

According to U.S. Capitol Police McKinney and the officer scuffled today after the Georgia Democrat entered a House office building unrecognized and refused to stop when asked.

FOX News has more:

According to the sources, McKinney was walking into the building at about 2:30 p.m. EST and went around the metal detector, which is customary for lawmakers.

The police officer apparently did not recognize McKinney and asked her to stop and walk through the metal detector. McKinney ignored the officer’s requests more than once, the sources said, and the officer placed his hand on McKinney’s shoulder.

The sources said that McKinney then turned around and hit the officer in the chest with her cell phone.

McKinney has refused to respond to reporter’s questions, but sources tell FOX News that McKinney is telling people close to her that she merely bumped into the officer, and that she did not strike him.

McKinney’s imperiousness is legendary. FOX details:

Dick Williams, publisher of the Dunwoody Crier, told FOX News that McKinney has often complained of mistreatment of African-American members of Congress regarding security checks on Capitol Hill. Indeed, this is not the first incident with McKinney at a checkpoint, according to Slate magazine.

“In August 1993, during her first term in office, a Capitol Hill police officer tried to prevent her from bypassing a metal detector, as members of Congress are allowed to do. For years afterward, The Hill reports, the Capitol Police pinned a picture of McKinney to an office wall, warning officers to learn her face because she refuses to wear her member’s pin. (And because officers are innately suspicious of a black woman with braided hair and gold shoes),” reports the online journal.

A spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert was quick to comment on the incident.

“On a day when the Democrats are promoting their national security agenda, it’s probably not a good idea for them to allegedly strike police officers.”

Ed Morrissey, who’ll be on the air later tonight, sums it up:

I just need to make sure we have this correct. The new Democratic effort on national security, therefore, is to defy identification procedures, ignore common-sense safeguards, pretend not to hear warnings, and then assault the people protecting us.

Gee, I don’t know … sounds like the old Democratic program on security to me.

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Flashbacks:

July 2004 – Ramblings’ Journal: Cynthia “Jihad Cindy” McKinney’s bodyguards shoves a reporter:

Notorious moonbat and former congresscritter Cynthia McKinney won the Democratic primary in Georgia’s 4th District this week. Her win in the predominantly Democratic district all but assures her return to the US House of Representatives in the general election in November.

At the victory celebration Tuesday night, Jihad Cindy’s bodyguards shoved a reporter for local radio station WSB toward the exit with a snarl. WSB host Neal Boortz takes the story from there…

On Tuesday night Ms. McKinney had a little celebration for supporters. The media was there to chronicle and report on the event …. including a reporter for our flagship radio station, Atlanta’s News-Talk 750 WSB. When Cynthia’s bodyguards noticed the female WSB radio reporter in their midst they swung into action. They approached our reporter and physically shoved her toward the exit with the words “Get your WSB ass out of here.”

Our reporter is still waiting for an apology from Cynthia McKinney, but … she isn’t holding her breath.

Slate: The rep who cries racism

Matthew Continetti: Cynthia McKinney (D-Conspiracy)

Re-read Smash’s excellent compendium of Cynthia-isms.

Q&O: Take Cynthia McKinney, please

LGF: McKinney moonbattery caught on tape