AOC says she is a sexual assault survivor and compares Capitol riot trauma to that event

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she is a sexual assault survivor and compares Capitol riot trauma to that event

Congresswoman compares calls to 'just forget this happened' with tactics of abusers

Jeanine Santucci
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described Monday night her experience during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as traumatic, saying that it "almost felt like a zombie movie or something" in an at-times emotional Instagram Live.

She detailed an encounter with a Capitol Police officer whom she initially feared was a rioter. Near the time the mob breached the Capitol Building, she said, someone began banging on the doors of her office. Fearing that they had entered the building, she hid inside a bathroom within her inner office.

Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said she heard a man repeatedly yelling, " 'Where is she?' And I just thought to myself, 'They got inside.' "

She said she saw a man wearing a black beanie through the door hinge and, as he continued to yell for her, "I thought I was going to die."

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-describes-capitol-attack-emotional-instagram-video/4349947001/

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1. I was worried that she was sexually assaulted during the Capitol riot.

She was traumatized, and I wouldn't put it past these assholes.