FOX News’ Brit Hume brings us the latest McKinneyana: the police report detailing the assault by Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) of a Capitol Police officer says she hit the man with her fist. Earlier news accounts said she had used her cell phone.
Meanwhile, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police — who earlier said he wanted to make sure the punched officer could “look at his legal recourses” — is denying that he was urging the officer to sue McKinney. “[S]everal media accounts are misleading and state that I urged the officer to sue Representative McKinney. That is not the case,” FOP chief Chuck Canterbury said in a statement last week. “I am not an attorney and did not recommend any specific legal action.”
