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AOC suggests NYC crime surge due to unemployment, residents who need to 'shoplift some bread'
Fox News ^ | 7-12-20 | By Yael Halon | Fox News

Posted on 07/12/2020 5:33:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone

The New York Democrat insisted that the uptick in crime is unrelated to the new NYPD budget cuts New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested over the weekend that the crime surge in New York City is likely because struggling residents are forced to shoplift in order to "feed their child."

In a virtual town hall meeting she hosted Thursday, some clips of which were shared by The Hill, the 30-year-old Democratic congresswoman was asked about the troubling uptick in violent crimes overtaking the city.

“Do we think this has to do with the fact that there’s record unemployment in the United States right now?" she responded. "The fact that people are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the Great Recession?"

"Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out, and they need to feed their child and they don't have money," Ocasio-Cortez continued, "so they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry.”

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To: NoLibZone

I forgot that they keep the bread in TV boxes in NYC.


41 posted on 07/12/2020 7:25:05 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts)
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To: NoLibZone

AOC (All Out Crazy) is encouraging looting and theft? Well, she is an anti-Capitalist.


42 posted on 07/12/2020 7:26:41 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: NoLibZone

Typical Democrat - makes excuses for aberrant behavior. “They can’t help it!” /s


43 posted on 07/12/2020 8:14:35 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: NoLibZone

I did not know that NIKE made bread!

stupid POS


44 posted on 07/12/2020 8:16:54 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: NoLibZone

The looters are not stealing bread but stealing high-end merchandise!


45 posted on 07/12/2020 9:08:05 PM PDT by tob2 (So much to do; so little desire to do it.)
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To: NoLibZone

This woman is an idiot. A shame she won the primary. She is in a race with her constituents as to who is crazier.


46 posted on 07/12/2020 9:31:49 PM PDT by upchuck (D.Horowitz: America did not invent slavery, America ended it. Preserve the American way of life.)
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To: NoLibZone

so......’they’ don’t have money, so they steal and put the items on craigslist so that other people who are also unemployed and don’t have money can buy their stolen stuff?

that’s some twisted sister logic


47 posted on 07/12/2020 11:22:23 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: NoLibZone

AOC is certifiably insane. This is one of her biggest whoppers yet!


48 posted on 07/12/2020 11:29:26 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: NoLibZone

It’s amazing how some can function
with one brain cell.


49 posted on 07/12/2020 11:56:53 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: EinNYC

Who is more of an idiot, AOC or the 71% of the voters in her district who voted for her in the latest primary?


50 posted on 07/13/2020 3:42:36 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: NoLibZone

She is probably the most useless person that has ever been in an elected office’’’and she’s from New York!!!!!


51 posted on 07/13/2020 4:56:37 PM PDT by terycarl
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