Capitol Police have arrested an individual accused of assaulting Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., inside a congressional workplace constructing in Washington on Tuesday.
James McIntyre, 33, of Illinois, is dealing with a cost of assaulting a authorities official, based on Capitol Police. He pleaded not responsible to the cost in a listening to by way of video on Wednesday and was launched underneath the situations that he stay not less than 100 yards away from Mace and never talk together with her. The choose additionally ordered him to remain out of Washington.
The incident was reported shortly earlier than 6 p.m. when McIntyre entered the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on Capitol Hill, which was open to the general public on the time.
In response to court docket paperwork obtained by ABC Information, McIntyre allegedly approached Mace to shake her hand. He “took her hand with each of his fingers and shook her arm up and down in an exaggerated, aggressive handshaking movement,” based on a witness.
Rep. Nancy Mace speaks to reporters as she heads to a Home Republican Caucus assembly on Capitol Hill, Nov. 19, 2024, in Washington.
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Mace, nonetheless, instructed police that McIntyre shook her fingers up and down and her arm was “flailing for about 3-5 seconds.” She mentioned she tried to drag her hand away however was held by McIntyre who instructed her, “Trans youth deserve advocacy.”
Mace instructed police she was experiencing ache in her wrists, arm and armpit/shoulder as a result of incident however refused to be attended to by paramedics.
McIntyre is scheduled to look in court docket on Jan. 27 at 9:30 a.m.
Mace claimed on X Tuesday evening that the incident stemmed from her place on transgender rights.
Mace made headlines and confronted protests for her proposal to ban transgender folks from utilizing restrooms equivalent to their gender id on Capitol Hill.
“I used to be bodily accosted on the Capitol tonight by a pro-tr*ns man,” Mace wrote. “One new brace for my wrist and a few ice for my arm and it’ll heal simply high quality,” she added.
In November, Mace launched a measure to ban transgender girls from utilizing organic girls’s restrooms on the U.S. Capitol.
Her announcement got here as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride prepares to take workplace as the primary transgender individual elected to Congress.
If Mace’s measure have been to move, its administration would fall underneath the jurisdiction of the sergeant-at-arms, which is the chief regulation enforcement officer on the Home of Representatives.
