WASHINGTON (CBS) — An Illinois man was arrested Tuesday evening on allegations of attacking Republican Rep. Nancy Mace on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Capitol Police mentioned James McIntyre, 33, is going through a cost of assaulting a authorities official. It was not specified the place in Illinois McIntyre was from.
Capitol police mentioned they tracked down McIntyre after a member of Congress’ workplace reported an incident within the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing. McIntyre was arrested after an investigative interview, Capitol police mentioned.
The Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing was open on the time of the incident and McIntyre had been by a safety screening, Capitol police mentioned.
Earlier Tuesday evening, the South Carolina congresswoman posted on social media that she was “bodily accosted” on Capitol grounds. Mace wrote within the publish that she would have the option want a brace for her wrist and ice for her arm—however that she can be fantastic.
Mace additionally insinuated within the publish that the assault had one thing to do along with her stance on trans points, however Capitol police didn’t verify a attainable motive.
Final month, Mace launched laws to alter Home guidelines to ban transgender girls from utilizing girls’s loos and different services on Capitol Hill—in a proposal that got here simply earlier than the Home ready to swear-in the primary brazenly transgender member of Congress.
Mace’s two-page decision would bar Home members, officers and staff from utilizing single-sex services within the Capitol or Home workplace buildings that don’t correspond with their “organic intercourse.” Her proposal claims that permitting “organic males” into girls’s restrooms, locker rooms and altering rooms “jeopardizes the protection and dignity” of feminine lawmakers, officers and Capitol Hill staff.
Mace’s laws appeared to focus on Rep.-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware, who turned the first brazenly transgender individual elected to Congress when she received the race for the state’s solely Home seat final month.
