In the next days to the attack on Congress of the United States, which took place last January 6, the investigations of federal prosecutors had revealed the intentions of some of the attackers to kidnap and “assassinate the deputies”. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 31-year-old Democratic Party MP become well known during the 2018 elections, she said several times that she was afraid of being killed in the attack. On Tuesday in a live broadcast on Instagram he explained in detail how he experienced the events of January 6.
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In the first few minutes of the video, Ocasio-Cortez talks about the importance of continuing to discuss the assault on Congress, adding that those who ask to “move on”, or to “forget what happened”, use the same methods as “who abuses other people. In the video she tells of being a victim of abuse herself: “I am a survivor of sexual assault, and I haven’t told many people in my life.”
Ocasio-Cortez specifies that her account of the attack is personal and says that for several days before, she and other deputies and senators, both Democrats and Republicans, had expected something to happen, having received messages recommending to be careful. especially on January 6th.
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Shortly after 1pm that day, it is said in the video, Ocasio-Cortez felt violent punches against the door of his office. She ran away, taking refuge in the bathroom. At that point a man entered her office shouting “where is she, where is she?” Many times, banging against the walls, while she remained hidden behind the bathroom door. When he tried to see who it was, through the crack in the half-open door, he saw “a white man in a black hat.” Ocasio-Cortez said she had never been “quieter” in her entire life and that was one of the moments she was most afraid of dying.
After some time, a member of her staff approached and told her she could get out, that the threatening man was out of her office, and they both took refuge in the office of Katie Porter, Democratic Congresswoman for California.
Porter herself, a guest on the television station MSNBC, he recounted what happened next, saying he found Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez very frightened and tried to reassure her, saying: “I’m a mother, I’m calm, I have everything we need. We can survive in this office for a month. ‘ Ocasio-Cortez replied: “I hope I can become a mother too, I hope I don’t die today.”
Katie Porter recounts how she and AOC hid in her office during the Jan. 6 insurrectionist riot.
“I’m a mom. I’m calm. I have everything we need. We can live for like a month in this office. And she said, ‘I hope I get to be a mom, I hope I don’t die today.'” pic.twitter.com/efa6ASPOGf
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During the live Instagram, Ocasio-Cortez anticipated possible criticism of him, saying he was aware that someone might not believe his story and think that he did it just to get people talking. The Democratic deputy, however, wanted to specify the need to talk about trauma to make people aware, explaining that traumas cannot simply be overcome, but “they accumulate on each other”.
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