GOP legislator not allowed into restricted parking-lot and that's somehow the Democrats' fault.

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/29/1853730/-Blue-Lives-Matter-Except-when-a-black-policewoman-told-this-entitled-state-senator-where-to-park?utm_campaign=trending

The verbal altercation happened between her and a member of the Capitol police, Ashley Berryman. According to the incident report, Chase pulled up to the pedestrian plaza outside a building at the state capitol and demanded to be let into a restricted area. Chase already had an assigned parking spot elsewhere. The officer called to see if she could get access, but was told that Chase was not on the required list and did not have permission. The officer reiterated to Chase that she had no authority to let her park in the restricted area.

According to the report, rather than letting it go, Amanda Chase used the “don’t you know who I am?” screed and swore at the officer. Allegedly, she told the officer that she wasn’t going to move her car unless she “let the f***ing barricades down to let me in!” This caused a traffic jam with buses being stuck behind her.

When called out about her boorish behavior, Amanda Chase made a bad situation much, much worse.

She not only accused the officer of lying, but also said the Capitol police were infiltrated by “democrat operatives.”

[Demovictory9]

1. State Sen. Amanda Chase (R), one of Virginia's most vocal opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, a

State Sen. Amanda Chase (R), one of Virginia’s most vocal opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, allegedly cursed out a female officer of the Commonwealth’s Capitol Police last month for not letting her park in a restricted area. At the time, Chase claimed the officer’s actions were a violation of her “equality of women’s rights.”

According to a March 22 incident report, first picked up Wednesday by The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Chase pulled up to the pedestrian plaza outside the Pocahontas building at the state capitol and demanded to be let into the restricted area. The officer assigned to that entrance refused to lower the barricade to let her pass, stating that she would not be allowed in without permission from the House of Delegates clerk’s office.

Chase refused to move her car to make way for several buses waiting in line behind her, and told the officer that she was “not going to move unless you let the fucking barricades down to let me in.”

https://thinkprogress.org/virginia-lawmaker-capitol-police-womens-rights-restricted-parking-amanda-chase-fcd6c15ea717/

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Behold A-Man-to Chase bearing her sidearm at the podium.

Entitled nasty idiot.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. I'll bet she's chased a good many away.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. Yeah, once they spot that six shooter. Or else it gave them a boner...

[Mopar151]

2. BOORISH - an old word, making a sad but necessary comeback. n/t

[bullwinkle428]

3. THANKS OBAMA!!!!!!

[gratuitous]

4. She seems nice

Apparently Sen. Chase carries a gun even in the Senate chamber (there's a picture at the Daily Kos link) because she's afraid of being attacked or assaulted. She wanted to park in the restricted lot because of fear that she might be confronted by protesters.

[trev]

7. I thought guns weren't allowed in Congress...?

That's what the guide told us when I visited.

How does she get away with carrying one in the Senate?

[onenote]

8. This is the Virginia Senate, not the US Senate.

[trev]

10. Oh; guess I should have read the whole thing.

Sometimes I just skim through stuff.