OAC: 'I didn't think I was just going to be killed' during Capitol riot [View all]

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in an interview with CNN that aired Monday evening said she had fears of being raped during the Jan. 6 insurrection in which she recounted people banging on her office doors while she hid.

"I didn't think that I was just going to be killed," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN anchor Dana Bash. "I thought other things were going to happen to me as well."

The New York Democrat said that "white supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways," and remarked on what she sees as the sexualization of violence.

When asked by Bash to clarify if she was worried that she would be raped during the storming of the Capitol, Ocasio-Cortez responded, "Yeah, yeah, I thought I was."

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/567082-ocasio-cortez-says-i-didnt-think-i-was-just-going-to-be-killed-during-capitol