Shockingly, the New York State Representative publicly stated that she feared that she would be raped and killed by mobs during the capital riots on January 6.
Ocasio-Cortez is with CNN How she hid when the mob knocked on her office door. “I don’t think I will be killed,” Ocasio-Cortez told the anchor Dana Bash. “I thought other things would happen to me.”
When asked if she was worried that she would be raped by the mob, Ocasio-Cortez said: “Yes, yes, I thought I was,” attributed this feeling to “in that attack Deep-rooted and active misogyny and racism in China.”
“White supremacy and patriarchy are closely related in many ways,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “This violence has a lot of pornography.”
“Survivors have a very powerful set of skills. As the skills needed by survivors, the tools you build for resilience, they will come back soon. For me, I think these skills will come back soon, so I can survive ,” she added.
Congresswoman in February disclose She is a survivor of sexual assault and recalls her personal experience during the uprising. Then she described how she locked herself in the bathroom of the office, listening to the knock on the door.
Although she later heard a voice asking, “Where is she?” Ocasio-Cortez said she didn’t know this was a Congressman because he did not identify himself.
“In that situation, one would never think that it was law enforcement. This is not the way we are trained to think,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez also confessed to Bash that her first term in Washington was “very painful.” “I came in and I let an incumbent step down. Although it may not resonate in our community, it is very popular in those smoke-filled rooms,” Ocasio-Cortez Say.
“I took a friend (from those members). So, I walked into a very cold environment, even in my own party.”
Ocasio-Cortez Knocked down Veteran Joseph Crowley (Joseph Crowley) in the 2018 New York primary. As a socialist, Ocasio-Cortez was the organizer of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and has a strong presence on social media Influence. Her viral introduction video made her a “woman of the people, playing her working-class roots”.
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