Posted on 02/01/2021 9:21:30 PM PST by yesthatjallen
@AOC just shared on IG Live that she is a survivor of sexual assault.
She says that this is part of the reason she has waited to tell her story of her experience during the Capitol insurrection. As a survivor, she is used to not being believed. @AOC
@AOC says 1 week before the insurrection she was getting texts that she needed to be careful, specifically on the 6th.
In a deeply relatable move, AOC says she was singing Nina Simone and feeling great after Ossoff and Warnock won in Georgia. (Just before the insurrection began.)
Then after 1pm, AOC says she heard a BOOM. "I hear these huge violent bangs on my door and then every door going into my office."
This is harrowing. AOC says she was told to run and hide. She jumped into a bathroom, closed the door, and then realized she should have hidden in the closet. She opened the door to run across to the closet and could hear that someone had gotten into her office.
While AOC was hiding she heard people yelling: "Where is she?" They even opened the bathroom door and she was hiding directly behind it. "I thought everything was over," she says of that moment.
AOC is very clear: "I thought I was going to die."
AOC is breaking down in tears talking about her state of mind when she thought she might die. "I had fulfilled my purpose."
She says that the man turned out to be a Capitol police officer. But he was looking at her with anger and hostility, and he was there without a partner. Something did not feel right. She wasn't sure if she was projecting.
"It felt like a zombie movie," AOC says of the experience.
Eventually AOC ended up sheltering in @katieporteroc's office. She says that she tore through Rep. Porter's office looking for places to hide.
AOC is getting choked up talking about the staffers who were willing to put themselves between the representatives and any potential danger entering the office.
Later that night, when AOC told @AyannaPressley what had happened to her earlier, Rep. Pressley immediately told her that she had experienced TRAUMA.
"Recognizing and admitting [trauma] is already a huge first step. Especially in a world where people are trying to tell you that you didn't experience what you experienced." -@AOC
AOC is hammering home that accountability is necessary for safety. Currently there is no accountability, and therefore no safety.
"You want to be president so bad that you are going to allow your own colleagues' lives to be in danger," AOC says, calling out the "craven" ambitions of people like Cruz and Hawley.
I know for a fact that others like me are NOT “dealing with this” very well at all.
It’s a complex issue that is more than the actual assault, it’s also the fact that many times [most really] the victims get little or no support from those who were supposed to protect them as children, usually because it’s a family member and OMG, we just have to keep the peace and not alienate the family.
So we get thrown to the wolves, as it were, as a sacrifice to “peace”.
I have no words to describe how it feels to be considered of LESS value than a child molester.
You carry that with you your whole life.
And now, the whole nation is living our nightmare and the Dems and far too many Repubs are acting as the family who only wants “peace”, damn those who are being crushed by this.
Sorry to sound so “melodramatic” but unless you’ve lived it, you can’t really understand it and I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
Is THAT what she’s claiming was the “assault”?!?
She should try being a 10 year old kid with some perv’s raging hard on rammed against her back, like Pedo Joe does to those terrified little girls he’s fondling.
She makes me SICK.
I pray for you. God bless you and lift this oppression from your spirit. I wish there was more that I could say.
“As a survivor, she is used to not being believed.”
If you want to believe that’s the reason people never believe you, you go right ahead.
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