U.S. Rep member, Nancy Mace shared photos of her n@ked silhouette on Capitol Hill Tuesday, May 20, alleging that they were taken without her consent by her ex-fiance. The congresswoman addressed the photo during a House Oversight Committee hearing. She said: Freedom is not a theory. It is the right to breathe. It is the right to dress and undress, to sleep without someones camera filming your n@ked body. The Founders wrote liberty in parchment, but hidden cameras erase it in pixels. I speak not just as a lawmaker, but as a survivor, she added As Mace urged lawmakers to support legislation expanding prohibitions on video voyeurism, behind her were poster boards of black-and-white still images apparently taken from a security camera installed in the living room of a home, which showed a blurry figure. Mace claimed she was the figure, which she had circled in yellow.
Behind me is a screenshot from one of the videos I found of myself. The yellow circle, my n@ked silhouette, is my n@ked body, she said. I didnt know that I had been filmed. I didnt give my consent. I didnt give my permission. Patrick Bryant, Maces ex-fianc, has vehemently denied the allegations. I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace, Bryant said in a statement. I have never raped anyone. I have never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not just false they are malicious and deeply personal. My mistake was loving and trusting someone who later weaponized our relationship. Bryant claims that Mace is lobbing the accusations in her official capacity as a congressional lawmaker in order to shield herself from legal action.
Mace and ex Bryant The Constitutions speech and debate clause provides lawmakers immunity from potential criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits for acts taken within the legislative sphere. If she believed them to be true and there was evidence to support her accusations, she would say them outside the chamber away from her public role and protections and pursue them through proper legal channels, Bryant said. She has not done so, because she cannot. Mace first brought her allegations against Bryant and three of his business partners to light in a shocking House floor speech in February. The congresswoman accused her ex-fianc of committing depraved sxual crimes against herself and a dozen other women including underage girls in the explosive remarks. Mace claimed that she discovered evidence of r@pe, voyeurism and other sxual abuse in trove of more than 10,000 videos and photographs she found in her former husband-to-bes phone. The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division is investigating Maces allegations against Bryant, who claims he has fully cooperated with the probe.
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