It’s been nearly two years since current Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney punched a cop. On March 29, 2006, the then Georgia U.S. Representative punched a Capitol police officer after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector. How much you want to bet she was blasting rap group NWA’s single “F*ck the Police” in her i-pod on the way to work that morning?
To be fair, members of Congress are not required to pass through metal detectors. So, when the officer called out, “Ma’am, Ma’am,” and grabbed her arm to stop her, she did what any respectable congressman would do: she punched him in the chest.
It turns out McKinney wasn’t wearing the pin that distinguishes the privileged congress members from the nobodies and potential psychos, so security personnel probably weren’t expecting to get chest bumped by an angry Capitol Hill rep. But, whatever.
Since then McKinney has been ostracized, switched parties and now tries her hand at being Green. So let’s celebrate how far she’s come since that unsightly incident (caught on tape but, unfortunately for us, unreleased) with a video in which she humiliates herself a couple of weeks after the assault:
McKinney was being interviewed by a reporter who repeatedly questioned her about the scuffle. Frustrated, McKinney stood up and forgot she was still wearing a microphone. Her off-screen comments calling one of her aids “a fool” were caught on tape. Enjoy!