Pressley called me. Ocasio-Cortez, write on Twitter that she does not feel safe to take refuge with certain legislators.
“The second time I realized that our ‘safe room’ of the violent white supremacist mob included an insidious, white supremacist, anti-masked member of Congress who incited the mob in the first place, I went out, “Pressley said.
Mrs. Ocasio-Cortez and Mrs. Pressley is both a member of The Squad, a group of progressive legislators who have been orally attacked by Conservatives and the president.
Representative Lauren Boebert, Republican from Colorado, drew criticism from Democrats for tweet about the location of speaker Nancy Pelosi during the attack, despite reports that lawmakers were instructed by security officials not to declare their location. Me. Boebert later rejected the seriousness of her actions.
“They accuse me of tweeting the speaker’s presence directly after she was safely removed from the Capitol, as if I were revealing a big secret, when in fact this removal was also broadcast on TV,” Boebert said in a statement. Monday.
In the week before the siege of the Capitol, Ms. Boebert, an ardent gun rights activist, issued an ad in which she stated that she would take her Glock with her to the streets of Washington, also on her way to work. On Wednesday on her way to the living room for the accusation, Ms. Boebert caused a spectacle by pushing her through metal detectors, which were installed as part of heightened security measures after the attack, and the police officers who asked her to stop ignored her. .
Me. Boebert and other first-year Republicans, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, have questioned or outright intended guidelines to protect lawmakers from violence, intruders or the coronavirus.
“I did not know if I would make the end of the day alive,” said Mrs. Ocasio-Cortez said during her live stream. “Not just in a general sense, but also in a very, very specific sense.”
Luke Broadwater contribution made.