Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., stated she was bodily accosted on Capitol grounds Tuesday evening, and the suspect has since been arrested.
The U.S. Capitol Police stated that simply earlier than 6 p.m. the workplace of a member of Congress, later recognized as Mace, reported an incident within the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing.
Home division officers and brokers with the Menace Evaluation Part of the police division tracked down the suspect, recognized as 33-year-old James McIntyre of Illinois.
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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. (AP Photograph/John McDonnell/File)
Police interviewed McIntyre and in the end arrested him on the grounds of assaulting a authorities official.
“I used to be bodily accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my combat to guard girls. Capitol police have arrested him,” Mace stated in a submit on X. “All of the violence and threats maintain proving our level. Ladies need to be secure. Your threats is not going to cease my combat for girls!”
Mace has been vocal about her opposition to transgender people utilizing loos not assigned to their organic gender.
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 A transgender rights supporter takes half in a rally outdoors the U.S. Supreme Courtroom. (Getty Photographs/File)
She led the cost towards permitting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware, to make use of the ladies’s restrooms on Capitol Hill. McBride is a organic man who identifies and presents as a girl.
Mace stated final month she was receiving loss of life threats, including that she was being “unfairly focused.”
Mace additionally drafted decision H.R. 1579, which might prohibit members, officers and staff of the Home from utilizing amenities apart from these equivalent to their organic intercourse.
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Mace’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Fox Information Digital’s Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
