On Monday, during an Instagram Live where she discussed her experience during the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol last month, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed that she s a sexual assault survivor. I m a survivor of sexual assault, she said. And I haven t told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other.
Ocasio-Cortez talked about the days leading up to the riot, and recalled when she was forced to hide from the violent mob. She remembered hearing a man s voice yelling, Where is she? while she hid in a bathroom. I felt that if this was the journey that my life was taking, that, I felt that things were going to be OK, and that, you know, I had fulfilled my purpose, she shared.
"If Representative Ocasio-Cortez does not apologize immediately," Representative Chip Roy wrote, "we will be forced to find alternative means to condemn this regrettable statement."
Metal detectors were installed in the Capitol after the attack and some Republicans went ballistic
By Shannon Larson Globe Staff,Updated January 13, 2021, 2:06 a.m.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is searched by US Capitol Police after setting off the metal detector outside the doors to the House of Representatives Chamber on Tuesday.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
House lawmakers are now required to go through a metal detector security screening before being allowed to enter the chamber â a precautionary measure that galled several Republicans Tuesday, some of whom uttered obscenities or ignored the devices, claiming they were impeding them from voting.