The socialist from the Bronx has proverbially stepped into it again with comments she made about the massive crime increases in Democratic cities, especially in her own backyard.
Watch the video of her comments that are getting her into trouble:
Here’s more from the NY Post, who should know something about this as they keep a close eye on the crime in the NYC area:
It’s not like any of the shootings that have New Yorkers panicked are taking place in AOC’s backyard — oh wait, they are.
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sparked outrage Tuesday for dismissing concerns about surging crime as “hysteria.”
The Bronx-Queens congresswoman, a far-left progressive routinely referred to by her initials, AOC, made the remark during a Zoom chat with freshman US Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), a fellow proponent of the “Defund the police” movement who represents the Bronx and Westchester.
“We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases,” Ocasio-Cortez said, reducing recent incidents such as a tourist shot in broad daylight in Times Square and kids ducking for cover amid a gang shooting in the Bronx to mere statistics.
“Now I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much. But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn’t drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.”
One local Democrat from the Bronx was quick to call out AOC:
Bronx City Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. on Tuesday blasted Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks and said she “is wrong.”
“The crime increase is a crisis,” said Diaz, a fellow Democrat.
“She should talk to the senior citizens in the Bronx who are afraid to come out of their house. She should talk to the mothers whose kids were killed by gun violence.”
The Post also notes that a recent poll shows people in the Bronx did not agree with defunding the police last year:
Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks also contradicted the results of a recent poll commissioned by The Post that found opposition to defunding the police was strongest in the crime-ridden Bronx, where more than 60 percent of respondents disapproved of last year’s slashing of $1 billion from the NYPD budget.
The National Fraternal Order of Police also said Ocasio-Cortez “said the quiet part out loud: the Narrative Matters More to her than Peoples’ Lives.”
“Dismissing the #CrimeCrisis across the country, saying it’s just ‘hysteria,’ is textbook #Gaslighting,” the group tweeted.
Below is the tweet from the NFOP, which includes a Fox Business interview with Joe Gamaldi:
.@AOC said the quiet part out loud: the Narrative Matters More to her than Peoples’ Lives
Dismissing the #CrimeCrisis across the country, saying it’s just “hysteria,” is textbook #Gaslighting@AOC, those “percentage increases” are Mothers, Fathers, Sons & Daughters@JoeGamaldi pic.twitter.com/XE7CS4b55P
— National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) (@GLFOP) June 29, 2021
It really says something when even local Democrats in New York are calling out AOC, who clearly dismisses this major crime surge in Democratic cities in the name of the defund movement. It’s the same reason a Democrat on the city council in Oakland called the crime surge a ‘speed bump’, because they don’t want crime surge to be an impediment to their agenda of transforming today’s policing into a band of social workers and counselors armed only with pepper spray. They don’t care that people are losing their lives as long as they get their socialist agenda accomplished. That’s really what matters to them.
It’s despicable and I’m glad at least some Democrats are stepping up and challenging AOC’s nonsense.