The Daily Background
| Republican Congressman gets in physical altercation with Capitol Hill Police– Where’s the media?
by Arlen Parsa
Double-standard anyone?
Okay, so imagine this. A Democratic African American Congresswoman gets in a physical altercation with a Capitol Hill Police Officer and she’s demonized by it by the press. This one happened in 2006:
A Georgia congresswoman struck a Capitol Hill police officer “in his chest with a closed fist” after the officer tried to stop her from going around a metal detector last month, according to a police report.
The report, obtained Wednesday by CNN, called the March 29 incident involving Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, an “assault on a police officer.”
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McKinney, whose name is not listed in the report — she is described as “suspect” S-1 — has charged that the officer used racial profiling against her and inappropriately touched her, and has said she acted out of instinct.
Now imagine this. A White Republican Congressman gets in a physical altercation with a Capitol Hill Police Officer for refusing to break Capitol rules about letting in tourists from a certain entrance to the Capitol building which they are barred from entering. This one happened on Thursday:
Shays eventually found the group and went to them, but the police officer refused to allow them to enter the building through the West Front entrance, which is off-limits to tourists. Shays, Cardarelli said, grabbed the officer’s lapel “to look at his name badge†and shouted at him.
“I know Chris swore, and he probably did use the f-bomb,†[Congressman Christopher Shay’s spokesoman John] Cardarelli told CNN.
Naturally they say any comparison between the two incidents is absurd. But does anyone see a double-standard at least in the level of press coverage this has garnered? Did you even hear about this incident before I just wrote about it?
I don’t see the incident and an issue of race. Both parties acted inappropriately and much of it had to do with there attitude of priviledge and possibly stress. Anger management issue often arise when individuals are under great amounts of stress. Unfortanately high acheivers like those in Washington are too pride to recognize when their judgement has been affected by there stress level.
Shannon Munford M.A. MFT CAMFT
www.daybreakservices.com
most of us would need some anger management therapy if we are on very stressful jobs.-~
for those of us who cannot control anger, i think that anger management should be a reuirement to have a quality life ~:’