Posted on 01/23/2020 6:09:55 AM PST by SJackson
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wondered why there were "almost no police officers" at a Second Amendment rally in Virginia that saw a heavy police presence.
Thousands of gun rights advocates demonstrated in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday in protest of a series of gun control bills proposed by Democrats. While speaking the same day at Blackout for Human Rights: MLK Now 2020 in Harlem's Riverside Church, the New York Democrat criticized the rally.
"There's this gun rights protest happening down in Richmond," she began as the event's host said, "On MLK day!"
"On MLK day!" Ocasio-Cortez said before contrasting the Richmond rally with the Baltimore, Maryland, riots following the 2015 death of Freddie Gray while he was in police custody.
"But here's the image that has struck with me the most about that. When we go out and march for the dignity and the recognition of the lives of people like Freddie Gray and Eric Garner, the whole place is surrounded by police in riot gear without a gun in sight. And here are all of these people flying Confederate flags, with semi-automatic weapons, and there's almost no police officers at that protest," she said.
She added, "Who or what are our institutions protecting from whom? That image conveys it all."
There were sheriffs there along WITH police officers.
These people are dolts.
And yet there were zero cars burned, zero windows smashed, zero beatings, and zero arrests.
Sounds like the police weren't needed there that day.
I doubt she will EVER get it.
I was there and when I looked up at every rooftop I saw drones flying, helicopters circling and heads looking down at the crowded streets. There were hundreds of somewhat overly polite police on the ground too.
MLK Jr. believed in gun rights as a civil right.
Was there a better estimate of how many there?
Show us your boobs!
“I’ve had dogs and cats that were smarter than AOC.”
I’ve got a cellphone that is smarter than she is.
the liberty bell needs to be rung a few times with her head...
AOC needs to do something useful...like take off her shirt a go make me a sammish.
The Richmond Slimes Urinal-Pispatch estimated 22,000.
She cannot allow herself to get it. She’s a proggie.
As for it being on MLK (a Republican) day: had most all blacks been well armed from 1865 on, there’d have been a whole lot of dead Democrats in bloody white hooded robes over the years.
I would think there were a lot of police, off duty, with the marchers.
Since the marchers were peaceful and orderly, there was no need for police.
The same forking retard that will call cops “racist nazis” if they even so much as drive through some inner city warzone.
“AOC needs to do something useful...like take off her shirt a go make me a sammish.”
And help me put up insulation in the garage.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3810123/posts
There were lots of police there.
How many police does she have at her rallies and why?
“I doubt she will EVER get it.”
She gets, or not gets, whatever Soros tells her.
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