Post by Jaga on Jan 15, 2021 12:06:36 GMT -7
Majority of people who attacked the congress were ex-veterans - young guys with lots of military experience and fitness from Idaho (a guy climbing the wall), Florida, California, Arizona, Delaware.
Their victims were members of Congress - especially Nancy Pelosi who office was breached; vice president Pense - they were chants about killing him, Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez. She became a bitting girl by Fox News, since she is considered a liberal.
here is her story:
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/13/aoc-capitol-mob-republicans-death/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she feared GOP lawmakers would lead rioters to her: ‘I thought I was going to die
As rioters pounded on doors and smashed through glass windows at the U.S. Capitol last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) says she worried her own colleagues in Congress might divulge her location to the mob outside, putting her at risk for kidnapping or worse.
In the midst of the chaos, the lawmaker revealed on Tuesday night, she also experienced “a pretty traumatizing event” that left her fearing for her life.
“I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die,” she said, noting she couldn’t get into specifics for security reasons. “I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive.”
Those revelations came in an hour-long Instagram Live video that drew more than 100,000 viewers late Tuesday, in which Ocasio-Cortez blasted the GOP for instigating the insurrection and alleged some of her colleagues hold white-supremacist beliefs.
Ocasio-Cortez is the latest Democratic lawmaker to divulge disturbing new details about the riot, suggesting the violent scene was even more dangerous than it initially appeared.
As the pro-Trump rioters streamed into the Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers were told to take refuge in a protected “extraction point.” But Ocasio-Cortez said she did not feel safe doing so “because there were QAnon and white-supremacist sympathizers and, frankly, white-supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point who I know and who I have felt would disclose my location and would create opportunities to allow me to be hurt, kidnapped, et cetera.”
“So I didn’t even feel safe around other members of Congress,” she concluded. She did not say where she took shelter instead.
Ocasio-Cortez didn’t name the lawmakers she thought might jeopardize her safety, but she is not the first to suggest some members of Congress could have deliberately put others at risk.
Her comments came hours after Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) alleged in a Facebook Live broadcast that some of her colleagues had helped protesters perform “reconnaissance” by giving them Capitol tours the day before the riots. One freshman lawmaker, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), is also facing criticism for tweeting about the location of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) while the Capitol was under siege.
Several Democrats have also described facing a different kind of safety risk while sheltering from the mob in a cramped, windowless room: Republican lawmakers who refused to wear masks, potentially exposing colleagues to the coronavirus. Two Democrats who stayed in that room have since tested positive for the virus.
Earlier Tuesday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a close ally of Ocasio-Cortez and one of a handful of Black women in Congress, said that she had similar reservations about the sheltering plan. “The second I realized our ‘safe room’ from the violent white supremacist mob included treasonous, white supremacist, anti masker Members of Congress who incited the mob in the first place, I exited,” she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon.
Their victims were members of Congress - especially Nancy Pelosi who office was breached; vice president Pense - they were chants about killing him, Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez. She became a bitting girl by Fox News, since she is considered a liberal.
here is her story:
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/13/aoc-capitol-mob-republicans-death/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she feared GOP lawmakers would lead rioters to her: ‘I thought I was going to die
As rioters pounded on doors and smashed through glass windows at the U.S. Capitol last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) says she worried her own colleagues in Congress might divulge her location to the mob outside, putting her at risk for kidnapping or worse.
In the midst of the chaos, the lawmaker revealed on Tuesday night, she also experienced “a pretty traumatizing event” that left her fearing for her life.
“I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die,” she said, noting she couldn’t get into specifics for security reasons. “I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive.”
Those revelations came in an hour-long Instagram Live video that drew more than 100,000 viewers late Tuesday, in which Ocasio-Cortez blasted the GOP for instigating the insurrection and alleged some of her colleagues hold white-supremacist beliefs.
Ocasio-Cortez is the latest Democratic lawmaker to divulge disturbing new details about the riot, suggesting the violent scene was even more dangerous than it initially appeared.
As the pro-Trump rioters streamed into the Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers were told to take refuge in a protected “extraction point.” But Ocasio-Cortez said she did not feel safe doing so “because there were QAnon and white-supremacist sympathizers and, frankly, white-supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point who I know and who I have felt would disclose my location and would create opportunities to allow me to be hurt, kidnapped, et cetera.”
“So I didn’t even feel safe around other members of Congress,” she concluded. She did not say where she took shelter instead.
Ocasio-Cortez didn’t name the lawmakers she thought might jeopardize her safety, but she is not the first to suggest some members of Congress could have deliberately put others at risk.
Her comments came hours after Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) alleged in a Facebook Live broadcast that some of her colleagues had helped protesters perform “reconnaissance” by giving them Capitol tours the day before the riots. One freshman lawmaker, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), is also facing criticism for tweeting about the location of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) while the Capitol was under siege.
Several Democrats have also described facing a different kind of safety risk while sheltering from the mob in a cramped, windowless room: Republican lawmakers who refused to wear masks, potentially exposing colleagues to the coronavirus. Two Democrats who stayed in that room have since tested positive for the virus.
Earlier Tuesday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a close ally of Ocasio-Cortez and one of a handful of Black women in Congress, said that she had similar reservations about the sheltering plan. “The second I realized our ‘safe room’ from the violent white supremacist mob included treasonous, white supremacist, anti masker Members of Congress who incited the mob in the first place, I exited,” she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon.
