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Originally Posted by organist
In deference to the police, as stated in the story, the accuser was supposed to wear an identification pin, and she didn't have that on- ""It is the job of the Capitol Police to protect members of Congress. As a part of that job, they are to know who those members are," he said. "Whenever you put a police officer out on the street, he is supposed to know his job."
Members of Congress are allowed to bypass the metal detectors and security checkpoint. They are supposed to wear a lapel pin that identifies them as lawmakers. McKinney acknowledges she wasn't wearing one when she was stopped, but concurred with Myart that police should know who she is.
"The pin is not the issue," the six-time congresswoman said. "The issue is face recognition."
That would be her faux pas.
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She is just mad that some lowly cop didn't recognize her or her ego. "Face recognition"? It's more like "you don't know who I am???". Unfortunately some opportunistic people will take an incident like this and blow it totally out of proportion to further their own ends.
Even more unfortunately, much of society has been conditioned to react this way. For example, I was involved in talking to a young Hispanic girl who is involved in gang activity. Never once was race, ethnic origin, nationality or anything remotely close mentioned. When she was told that gang activity wasn't going to be tolerated she screamed "you're all being racist".
