Just to reiterate for members of the press: AOC seems to have had a truly frightening experience on January 6th, but members of the mob did not break into her office. The man she hid from was a Capitol Police officer who told her to go to a different office building.
She raised valid concerns about the officer, saying he didn't announce himself and she perceived him as hostile. I want to emphasize again that I'm not discounting the fear she must have felt in those moments. But accuracy about how we describe it is important.
I posted this detail bc a lot of my colleagues in the press were sharing part of her story but not this info she also shared. Its not a partisan attack. It’s important to establish the facts if we’re going to have a discussion about the officer’s behavior
https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/1356458848677203969?s=21
A lot of viewers of this segment are going to come away from it believing a random member of the mob broke into Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez’s office while she was in there, even though she said during her IG live that the man was a Capitol Police officer.
https://twitter.com/todayshow/status/1356579215701860355?s=21
The Today Show appears to have deleted its tweet with the video of their segment about this. 
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