Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed her solidarity with the recent anti-police demonstrations that have been breaking out across Brooklyn.
“Ending mass incarceration means challenging a system that jails the poor to free the rich,” the freshman Democrat wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “Arresting people who can’t afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community. New Yorkers know that, they’re not having it, and they’re standing up for each other.”
Hundreds of protesters turned out Friday and Saturday in the borough to rally against what they call police brutality by the NYPD and a crackdown on subway fare evaders.
The demonstrations were sparked by a viral video showing police officers trying to break up a fight between teens on the Jay Street-Metro Tech subway station.
Read more at NY POST.
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Arresting people who can’t afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community
So “appropriate” to tweet this on Parshas Noach.
The Dor Hamabul was also Nechtem Dinom for Gezel of less than a Shova Prutah. Of course $2.75 is more than a Shova Prutah but the mindset of this is an amount we can steal is coming straight from the Dor HaMabul
My grandchildren in preschool have more intellect in their sleep than this primate has in her best hours. She never encountered anything that challenged law and order and the establishment that she didn’t look to support. Just 2 weeks ago, she cheered on another intellectual midget who proposed that young mothers should eat their babies to assist the world with climate change. Bizarre? not for AOC.
Vote Republican. get her and her ilk away from politics.
MABA – Make Alexandria Bartend Again
MABA will lead to MAGA.
The police should just take a week off and let it burn then when the people go bananas because the police aren’t on duty tell them to ask Cortez to come down and calm everything down because the criminals will certainly listen to her
AOC is a disgrace to American democracy