Okay so yes you should be watching the AOC livestream
(AOC is describing people/a man breaking into her congressional office the day of the Capitol riot and her hiding in her bathroom, screaming "Where is she? Where is she?"
"I thought I was going to die,” she says.
"I have never been quieter in my entire life."
"I thought I was going to die,” she says.
"I have never been quieter in my entire life."
A twist: Person in her office, she says, declares they are a Capitol police officer, but she says "it doesn't feel right."
"He wasn't yelling this is Capitol police" she says, and she says she felt fearful of his "hostility."
Says her leg director felt similarly.
"He wasn't yelling this is Capitol police" she says, and she says she felt fearful of his "hostility."
Says her leg director felt similarly.
She says officer directed her to another building, and she ran, unescorted, to "this other building."
"It wasn't until we get to that building, we realize he didn't give us a specific location," she says.
"It wasn't until we get to that building, we realize he didn't give us a specific location," she says.
(It is fascinating that she is choosing to tell this full story — unedited — on Instagram, vs. through any media outlet.)
She basically is describing seeking to find the office of a friend/member frantically in the other congressional building.
She eventually runs into Rep. Katie Porter and shelters in her office.
She eventually runs into Rep. Katie Porter and shelters in her office.
Porter is calm and not aware and/or worried about what AOC feels is happening in the building.
AOC describes searching for places to hide in the office, as Porter is sipping coffee.
Staff starts pushing couches up against the door.
She compares it to school shooting drills.
AOC describes searching for places to hide in the office, as Porter is sipping coffee.
Staff starts pushing couches up against the door.
She compares it to school shooting drills.
AOC says she is looking for clothes to change into/sneakers to wear in lieu of heels and congressional attire.
"Bracing for impact," she says of how it felt.
"Bracing for impact," she says of how it felt.
“All these crazy thoughts go through your mind,” she says. “Are some offices safer than others because they have white sounding names? Or male sounding names?”
She says they turned down the lights in the office.
She says they turned down the lights in the office.
She is circling back to the experience with the Capitol police officer in her office.
“Did he not say he was Capitol police on purpose?” she wonders.
“Did he not say he was Capitol police on purpose?” she wonders.
More from her on the Capitol police officer.
“Was he trying to actually put us in a vulnerable situation?” she says of not getting directions to evacuate a specific location.
“Was he trying to actually put us in a vulnerable situation?” she says of not getting directions to evacuate a specific location.
She says why she, unlike others, wasn't tweeting that day to update on her safety.
“I wasn’t safe," she says, "and I didn’t feel safe.”
“I wasn’t safe," she says, "and I didn’t feel safe.”
Once the building secure, she went to Ayanna Pressley's office for food.
"Come and eat," Pressley told her.
"Come and eat," Pressley told her.
She is now speaking about the experience of the trauma of the day.
“My story is not the only story, nor is it the central story," AOC says of 1/6.
But it is one of the stories of "what these people did,” she says.
But it is one of the stories of "what these people did,” she says.
She is now taking aim at Cruz and Hawley.
“We are not safe with people who hold positions of power who are willing to endanger the lives of others because they think it will score them a political point”
"What is the craven extent of your personal political ambition?”
“We are not safe with people who hold positions of power who are willing to endanger the lives of others because they think it will score them a political point”
"What is the craven extent of your personal political ambition?”
As an aside, she says Trump's followers are part of a "cult of personality" that is not transferrable.
The idea of appealing to those folks is "just not smart" politically.
The idea of appealing to those folks is "just not smart" politically.
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