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AOC says she feared for her life during Capitol riot (2021)

Nov 11, 2022 — Speaking to journalist Chris Wallace, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she has felt that her life has been in danger (People Magazine)

Nov.13, 2022
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she has felt her life is in danger since she was first elected to Congress and is afraid to even walk her dog. Independent UK.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she is a sexual assault ...

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Feb 2, 2021 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed she is a sexual assault survivor.

AOC Says She Went Into Hiding Prior to January 6, Fearing ...

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Feb 2, 2021 — On January 4, Representative Ocasio-Cortez left the Capitol to find Trump militants at her car, yelling at her.

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When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was barricaded inside her office during the Capitol insurrection on January 6, she not only feared that mob would kill her, but that she would be raped if the rioters found her.

“I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed,” Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Dana Bash in “Being…AOC,” the first episode of the new CNN series “Being…” that airs Monday night at 9 p.m. ET. “I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.”

Asked if that belief was driven in part by her experience as a survivor of sexual assault, Ocasio-Cortez said past traumas weighed on her mind as she hid.

“Survivors have a very strong set of skills. And the skills that are required as a survivor, the tools that you build for resilience, they come back in right away,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview in her district in June. “And for me, I felt like those skills were coming right back so that I could survive.”

She also traced the feeling back to what she described as the “misogyny and the racism” that “animated” the “attack on the Capitol.”

“White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “There’s a lot of sexualizing of that violence.”

Ocasio-Cortez first shared in February that she had been sexually assaulted years earlier. Her revelation in an Instagram Live video came less than a month after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, breached security, and began to wend their way through its halls in search of lawmakers.