AOC’s Damning Takedown Of Kristi Noem Goes Viral: ‘How Rich It Is…’ | EUROtoday

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) this weekend accused Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of making use of a stark double normal in her feedback made after the killing of Alex Pretti by a federal agent throughout an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis, the second such dying within the metropolis this month.

In one a part of an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, which has gone viral with nearly 3 million views on one X publish alone, Ocasio-Cortez sharply criticized Noem’s suggestion that folks shouldn’t attend protests with firearms, arguing the stance clashes with the Trump administration and conservatives’ fawning over earlier armed protesters on the political proper.

Pretti was a authorized gun proprietor who was licensed to hold a hid weapon. Minnesota regulation permits allow holders to hold firearms in public, together with at protests. The authorities’s declare that he was armed and frightening violence is at odds with movies and witness statements circulating publicly.

Ocasio-Cortez stated: “How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person’s death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and the same administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse?”

“When she [Noem] is talking about how merely showing up and inciting violence based on ideology against the government, when this administration has pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6th rioters who have then gone out into the streets and recommitted crimes of violence over and over again,” she continued.

The New York Democrat argued the message that’s being despatched is solely political: “What Secretary Noem is saying is not that you can’t do these things, is not that you can’t be armed, is not that you can’t attack your government. She just thinks that you can’t do that based on your political affiliation.”

The lawmaker additionally warned: “The uncorking of chaos that this administration is trying to attempt against the American people is escalatory, it is dangerous and it is a complete abdication of leadership.”

“We cannot go down this road,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “We cannot have countrymen against countrymen, citizen against citizen. This is not the America that we believe in. It is not the America that we stand in and we must unite together against this kind of very dangerous splintering that they are seeking to incite against people and divide us.”