Rep. Clay Attempts To File Charges Over Removal Of Painting Depicting Cops As Pigs
Posted By Kerry Picket On 9:20 PM 01/09/2017
WASHINGTON — Democratic Missouri Rep. Lacy Clay wants to file a theft charge with Capitol Hill Police against Republican California Rep. Duncan Hunter for removing a painting in the capitol that depicts police officers as pigs.
Clay told reporters Monday night that police spoke to his chief of staff earlier in the day and have not been helpful to the congressman in his quest to file charges against Hunter.
“I think he was way out of bounds and he broke the law. It’s called theft,” Clay said. “I don’t think anyone up here is qualified to be an art critic. I’m not and no other member is an art critic except one—Alma Adams of North Carolina.”
“They are trying to figure out what they are going to do. So you call the police and ask them what they’re going to do,” Clay said, who noted he was looking for Hunter on the House floor. “Sound like politics to me,” he later said about the police on the hill.
A source on the hill familiar with the matter claims that Clay “asked for law enforcement protection to be present when he puts the painting back up at 10 a.m. [Tuesday].”
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