Washington — An Illinois man who was charged with misdemeanor assault after allegedly shaking Rep. Nancy Mace’s hand in an “exaggerated, aggressive” method has entered a not responsible plea.
James McIntyre, 33, of Chicago, was charged following an encounter at Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on Tuesday night. Mace, a South Carolina Republican, mentioned in a social media submit earlier this week that the encounter left her needing a brace for her wrist, and icing her arm.
Mace informed police that McIntyre mentioned, “Trans youth serve advocacy,” whereas shaking her hand. The Rayburn constructing was open on the time of the incident and Capitol police reported that McIntyre had been by means of a safety screening.
She added on the time that she can be “superb simply as quickly because the ache and soreness subside,” however on Wednesday issued a collection of posts on X that accused the media of “utilizing the assault on me to prop up misogyny on the Left,” including, “Possibly when the Left mentioned ‘imagine all ladies,’ they actually meant males who declare to be ladies.”
She mentioned President-elect Donald Trump known as to verify in on her after the incident. Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, informed reporters Wednesday that “no member of Congress must be accosted or assaulted or attacked based mostly on their political views,” calling the incident “very troubling.”
Final month, Mace stepped into the middle of controversy over transgender rights when she launched laws to vary Home guidelines to ban transgender ladies from utilizing ladies’s loos and different services on Capitol Hill.
Mace’s two-page decision would bar Home members, officers and workers from utilizing single-sex services within the Capitol or Home workplace buildings that don’t correspond with their “organic intercourse,” however that proposal got here simply earlier than the Home ready to swear-in the primary brazenly transgender member of Congress, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware.
After the encounter earlier this week, Mace declined to be handled by a paramedic. She has since posted a number of photographs of herself in an arm brace on social media.
A Justice of the Peace decide ordered McIntyre’s launch after an arraignment in Superior Courtroom of the District of Columbia.
Efforts to succeed in an legal professional for McIntyre weren’t instantly profitable.
Adam Harrington,
Melissa Quinn and
Eric Henderson
contributed to this report.
