Charges Dropped In Mace’s “Trans Handshake Attack”

The Daily Beast reports:

Federal prosecutors dropped their charges against a man accused of assaulting South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) Tuesday. Mace accused James McIntyre, a national foster care advocate, of assaulting her, claiming that he shook her hand in an “exaggerated, aggressive” manner.

A Tuesday filing in D.C. Superior Court revealed that the misdemeanor charges against McIntyre, who pleaded not guilty, would not be pursued any further. Mace told News 2 Tuesday that the dismissal of McIntyre’s charges 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 said. “If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.”

Read the full article. Multiple witnesses said that the interaction

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