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McKinney Aide Scuffles With Photographer

Posted: 6:37 am EDT August 9, 2006Updated: 4:59 pm EDT August 10, 2006

As Rep. Cynthia McKinney and her entourage arrived at the site of her post election rally Tuesday night one of McKinney's assistants got physical with a local TV photographer.

Videotape from the incident shows the aide gets bumped in the head with a light attached to the photographer’s camera.

The tape then shows the McKinney assistant lunge at the photographer with a closed fist.

Witnesses told Channel 2 Action News that the aide punched the photographer.

The aide was treated at the scene by paramedics.

The McKinney assistant is the same man who collided with Channel 2’s Washington bureau reporter Scott McFarlane in April as McFarlane tried to ask Rep. McKinney about her run-in with a Capitol Hill police officer.

The scuffle involving McFarlane also was caught on tape.

Rep. McKinney mentioned Tuesday night’s confrontation during her concession speech.

“My mother was hurt by someone in the press in this room tonight. One of my assistants needs stitches because of the press that are in this room tonight,” she said in her remarks.

DeKalb County police are investigating Tuesday night’s incident.

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