According to the Capitol Police report documenting the incident last Thursday, Foxx set off a metal detector stationed in front of a door leading to the House chamber. Two Capitol Police officers tried to stop Foxx, but she threw her bag underneath a table near the metal detector and still went into the chamber.
Foxx then returned to the metal detector and allegedly told the officers, Good thing no one stopped me.
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One of the officers replied that a reporter had witnessed the incident and said, I don t know if it changes anything but I don t want you guys to get in trouble. But I m going to be reporting on that.
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BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) House Majority Whip James Clyburn, (D-S.C.) is facing backlash for his comment on a policing reform bill.
During a CNN interview, Rep. Clyburn said Democrats should not delay the new policing reform legislation even if it does not end qualified immunity.
He said, I want to see good legislation and I know that sometimes you have to compromise. I don t want to see us throw out a good bill because we can t get a perfect bill .
“If you don’t get qualified immunity now, then we’ll come back and try to get it later, but I don’t want to sees us throw out a good bill because we can’t get a perfect bill,” says House Majority Whip James Clyburn on police reform. #CNNSOTUpic.twitter.com/cjp4R2zQUB
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House Majority Whip James Clyburn says tapes exist that will vindicate him from the metal detector violation fine he was hit with two weeks ago.
“The tapes will show what happened. I m going let the tapes speak for themselves,” the South Carolina Democrat told the
Washington Examiner Tuesday. “The whole issue is I ll never, ever intentionally circumvent magnetometers, nor would I ever make the jobs of these people who work around here difficult.”
Clyburn appealed the $5,000 fine he received for his metal detector violation to the House Ethics Committee.
Clyburn, the third-highest House Democrat, was first in his caucus to be fined for violating metal detector protocols since Speaker Nancy Pelosi established the security measures following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
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