WASHINGTON (CBS) — An Illinois man was arrested Tuesday night time on allegations of attacking Republican Rep. Nancy Mace on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Capitol Police mentioned James McIntyre, 33, is dealing with 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 House Office Building. McIntyre was arrested after an investigative interview, Capitol police mentioned.
The Rayburn House Office Building was open on the time of the incident and McIntyre had been by means of a safety screening, Capitol police mentioned.
Earlier Tuesday night, the South Carolina congresswoman posted on social media that she was “bodily accosted” on Capitol grounds. Mace wrote within the put up that she would have the ability want a brace for her wrist and ice for her arm—however that she can be wonderful.
Mace additionally insinuated within the put up that the assault had one thing to do together with her stance on trans points, however Capitol police didn’t affirm a doable motive.
Last month, Mace introduced legislation to alter House guidelines to ban transgender ladies from utilizing ladies’s loos and different amenities on Capitol Hill—in a proposal that got here simply earlier than the House ready to swear-in the primary openly transgender member of Congress.
Mace’s two-page resolution would bar House members, officers and workers from utilizing single-sex amenities within the Capitol or House workplace buildings that don’t correspond with their “organic intercourse.” Her proposal claims that permitting “organic males” into ladies’s restrooms, locker rooms and altering rooms “jeopardizes the security and dignity” of feminine lawmakers, officers and Capitol Hill workers.
Mace’s laws appeared to focus on Rep.-elect Sarah McBride of Delaware, who grew to become the first openly transgender person elected to Congress when she received the race for the state’s solely House seat final month.
