'I didn't think that I was just going to be killed,' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said about being barricaded inside her office during the Capitol insurrection on January 6. 'I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.'
"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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reacts to Fox News' coverage of her 02:33She also traced the feeling back to what she described as the"misogyny and the racism" that"animated" the"attack on the Capitol."Read More"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.
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