Headline in The Daily Mail , July 12, 2020.
AOC defends rise in NYC crime saying people are ‘stealing bread to feed their children during record unemployment’ despite weeks of bloodshed and 130% surge in shootings.
AOC on increased NYC crime: “Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent & are scared to pay their rent & so they go out & they need to feed their child & they don’t have money so... they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry.”
Classic Communist theory.
As with most communist theory, it confuses cause and effect.
Most crime in the USA is not caused by poverty. Much of the poverty in the USA is caused by crime.
AOC has been studying “Word Salad” speechifying at the knee of whatshername The Hoe!