The prosecutors this week did not prosecute an assault position against a man whom the representative Nancy Mace accused of having “physically approached” in the United States Capitol in December.
According to a presentation on Tuesday before the Superior Court of DC, prosecutors withdrew the only position against James McIntyre, a parenting defender. Mace, RS.C., had accused McIntyre of “aggressively” shaking his arm up and down at an event of December 10 that celebrated 25 years of the law of parenting care. He had declared himself innocent, they showed judicial presentations.
The DC district prosecutor’s office, which was processing the case, did not respond to a request for comments on why he decided to withdraw the position of assaulting a government official.
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A Mace office spokesman did not immediately respond to a comment request on Wednesday night. But the congresswoman defended and repeated her assault claims in a statement to the imprint, which first reported on the dismissal of the case.
“When a man can physically assault a woman in the halls of Congress, with impunity, he sends a frightful message to all women in the United States. If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere,” Mace said. “I presented charges, and they were inexplicably ignored. But I will not be. I will not go back. I will not feel intimidated. And I will surely not be silent.”
A McIntyre lawyer declined to comment.
Mace had told the officers after the meeting that McIntyre “began to aggressively and exaggeratedly shake his arm up and down in a shaking movement of his hand” that left his stirred arm for 3-5 seconds, according to an incident report. The report said Mace had described the officers feeling “intimidated and unable to get away when he tried.”
Elliott Hinkle, an eyewitness who had attended the event, had played Mace’s account, saying that they shake hands: “And James says:” Trans young people are also adoptive young people and need their support. “And then he sat down.
Mace denied the help of paramedics when it was offered, according to the incident report. She later said that night in X that she was “physically lying” in the Capitol for “a pro-tr*ns.”
The next day, Mace shared an image of herself with her right arm in a deep. She repeated the accusations against McIntyre in X in January, saying that she was “assaulted by a professional man a few weeks ago and I am still in physiotherapy for my wounds. Be firsthand how the left is capable of doing real physical damage.”
MACE has a record of the use of anti-trans rhetoric.
In November, it introduced a measure to prohibit legislators and employees to “use single -sex facilities that are not those corresponding to their biological sex.” She said that the legislation was a direct response to the representative Sarah McBride of the Delaware elections as the first member of the openly transgender Congress.
“I am 100% on the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s bathroom, in our locker room, in our changing rooms,” Mace told journalists at that time. “I will be fighting you in every step of the road.”
This year’s camera, under republican control, prohibited transgender people from using single -sex facilities that are aligned with their gender identities in the camera and the halls of the representatives chamber.
