McKinney Scuffle With Capitol Police Gets A Makeover of A Different Color.

Because of my job, I often visit the MediaTakeOut.com website.  It's a gossip site, and generally, I wouldn't pay their shenanigans any mind.  But today is different.  They took the initial story about McKinney's scuffle with Capitol Police and appropriately slugged it with a generic remark about a possible arrest.  That's much different than what's on the site now.  While the previous incarnation of the site referred to itself as having "all the latest gossip,"  just 24-hours later, the new version of the site has dubbed itself as featuring "All The Latest African-American News" -- and the McKinney story has gotten a makeover of its own.  The new headline?  "Officer Attacks Black Congresswoman."

Let's not forget that this is the fifth run-in McKinney has had with Capitol Police.   And when they tried to solve the problem by posting a picture of her at the security station so she would be recognized, she wasn't happy then either. Let's also not ignore the fact that neither the officer involved nor the Congresswoman are pressing charges.  This was a simple misunderstanding -- she wasn't wearing the lapel pin that would have allowed her to pass without having to go through the metal detector.  The officer involved called for her to stop a number of times, she ignored him and he took her arm to stop her.  She says she didn't hear him. Would she and those choosing to make this a racial incident have preferred that she was tackled? 

Yes, I think they would. And once again, police are being maligned for simply doing their job, while others are choosing to distract attention from the facts of the incident and turn this into something it just isn't.