Just to put things into perspective, here’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commenting on Justice Brett Kavanaugh having to exit out the back of a restaurant to avoid protesters out front, just weeks after a man with plans to assassinate him was arrested near his home:
I will never understand the pearl clutching over these protests. Republicans send people to protest me all the time, sometimes drunk and belligerent.
Nobody cares about it unless it’s a Republican in a restaurant. Can someone please explain the obsession because I don’t get it
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 8, 2022
On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez was approached by a “far-right troll” who recorded himself approaching her and making lewd and racist comments about her body. Speaking of pearl-clutching, Ocasio-Cortez has said that there have been “core security breakdowns” at the Capitol ever since January 6 and it’s “not a place that is designed to protect women” and “not a place that’s designed to protect LGBT people, and I fear for all of the journalists here”
So someone called her a name and she fears for the safety of every woman, LBGT person, and journalist who works around the Capitol?
NEW: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Capitol security is not 'designed to protect women' and LGBT people after a far-right troll sexually harassed her in racist terms on the Capitol steps by @ngaudiano @josephzeballos @BrentGriffiths @PoliticsInsider https://t.co/yZTp62fh5Y
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 14, 2022
“The normalization of this event and this dismissiveness, is dangerous. It’s not just about me. It’s about every person.” https://t.co/zsatDBP8Fd
— Zach C. Cohen (@Zachary_Cohen) July 14, 2022
Nicole Gaudiano, Joseph Zeballos-Roig, and Brent D. Griffiths report for Bloomberg Insider:
Earlier Thursday, Capitol Police released a statement noting that the man who harassed the congresswoman had not broken the law.
“Last night a man outside the U.S. Capitol Building recorded a video of himself making crude comments to a Member of Congress. The comments, although inappropriate, are not criminal,” the statement read. “In the video, the man never threatened or touched the Congresswoman. Out of an abundance of caution, our officers stopped the man and ran his information, which did not show any warrants.”
Ocasio-Cortez told reporters her office had to call Capitol Police five times “to get them to ask for this person’s information.”
“They and many of these people were sassing our office back, asking us why we want this information,” she said. “This is not about us having this information. This is about mitigating a threat. And, you know, we have to keep ourselves safe here because certain people will be safe, but not all of us are safe.”
AOC knows that you probably haven’t heard about the weeks she traveled in armored vehicles.
Life comes at you fast.
It's "pearl clutching" to think Judges shouldn't get chased out of restaurants after a protestor tried to murder one of them, but a national security incident that police should have stopped when some moron cat-calls you with a camera phone. pic.twitter.com/Yx8cQWNB5g
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) July 14, 2022
When have they sent someone to protest you? And have you ever been harassed in a restaurant?
— ErickRosson1982 (@ERosson1982) July 9, 2022
She was unaware that someone taking a picture of her boyfriend eating a hamburger … that was harassment.
Really living in her own bubble 🗯
— Kingsley AzubikeJP (@AzubineJp) July 14, 2022
You had me at “I will never understand…” kind of describes everything about you.
— Gene McCluskey (@gene_mccluskey) July 12, 2022
Oh man that did not age well.
— Think Harder (@ThinkHarder8) July 14, 2022
Naw, you care. You just don't want it done to you. pic.twitter.com/Csre3Oe1ua
— Javier Vasquez (@JavierVasquez85) July 8, 2022
This you? pic.twitter.com/MLcmpvvnFo
— Amy From Yoga Class (@AmyFromYoga) July 9, 2022
No one has thinner skin than a bully.
— Alex Winter (@Winter) July 9, 2022
Related:
AOC tweeting dramatically about being harassed on the Capitol steps after MOCKING Kavanaugh for being harassed BACKFIREShttps://t.co/4FYLqKdM09
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 14, 2022
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