WASHINGTON (WCBD) — Federal prosecutors moved Tuesday to dismiss expenses in opposition to a person who Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) accused of assaulting her throughout an occasion on the Capitol final 12 months.
Mace accused James McIntyre of Illinois, a nationwide foster care advocate, of accosting her throughout a Dec. 10 reception celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.
She claimed the assault got here in response to her efforts to bar transgender girls from utilizing girls’s restrooms on federal property, writing in a Dec. 10 put up on X that she was “physically accosted…by a pro-tr*ns man.”
McIntyre pleaded not responsible to misdemeanor assault expenses. These expenses are not being pursued, in accordance with an April 1 submitting in D.C. Superior Courtroom.
Authorities attorneys didn’t present a purpose for the dismissal of their “noelle prosequi” submitting, which is Latin for “not to wish to prosecute.”
Mace denounced the choice in a Wednesday assertion to Nexstar’s WCBD, saying it sends an “appalling message.”
“When a man can physically assault a woman in the halls of Congress, with impunity, it sends an appalling message to every woman in America,” she mentioned. “If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.”
A number of eyewitnesses disputed Mace’s characterization of the Dec. 10 incident, suggesting it seemed like a “normal handshake.”
However Mace claimed her arm and wrist have been injured, and he or she was noticed the following day carrying a sling on Capitol Hill.
“I was injured, intentionally, and I am still in pain,” she mentioned. “I filed charges, and they were inexplicably ignored. But I will not be. I will not back down. I will not be intimidated, and I sure as hell won’t stay silent.”
The Lowcountry congresswoman, who’s mulling a bid for South Carolina governor, visited the State Home in Columbia on Wednesday.
The Hill’s Zach Schonfeld contributed to this report.
