Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) exploded on Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) over his comments directed toward the Democratic Party concerning the need for the left to stop encouraging liberal protesters it’s okay to riot and start condemning violent demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who are attempting to enforce immigration law in major cities across the country.
Fetterman is taking heat from AOC for issuing a warning to his party that they could lose “the moral high ground” if they didn’t go further in condemning acts of destruction or violence being carried out by protesters against ICE agents who are simply doing their job to enforce immigration law throughout the country. In his comments, Fetterman specifically referenced the protests that took place in Southern California.
The Pennsylvania senator posted a photo on his social media accounts of a car set on fire, along with a masked individual who was shirtless and waving a Mexican flag. He went on to say that Democrats need to go much further in condemning such destruction, especially if they want to be taken seriously on the issue of immigration.
“This is anarchy and true chaos,” he wrote, according to the New York Times. “My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.” AOC was not happy with her Democratic colleague and offered a rebuke to him and any other Democrat who is condemning violent acts of destruction.
“Senator Fetterman, or anybody else that’s concerned with law and order, we should be looking at one of the most law-breaking agencies and administrations that we’ve seen in the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez stated, essentially refusing to condemn the actions of out-of-control protesters and placing the blame for those acts on the shoulders of both ICE agents and the Trump administration.
Watch AOC freak out against Fetterman here:
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This isn’t the first time Ocasio-Cortez has refused to come out and speak against protests of this kind. She did the same thing during the Black Lives Matter “mostly peaceful” protests that saw the streets of major cities all over America erupt in violence. Individuals burned down whole blocks, sabotaging local businesses not only with fire, but with looting as well. Beatings, shootings, and rapes were prevalent during these events.
Ocasio-Cortez stated during that time, “So if you’re out here asking for an end to unrest, you better be asking for healthcare as a human right, you better be calling for accountability in our policing, you better be supporting community review boards, you better be supporting the end of housing discrimination, you better be standing up to for-profit real estate developers that are intimidating people and trying to evict them from their homes–that’s what you better be calling for,” Common Dreams reported.
The New York Democrat continued, “If you’re trying to call for the end to unrest, but you don’t believe healthcare is a human right. If you’re afraid to say Black Lives Matter. If you’re too scared to call out police brutality–then you aren’t asking for an to unrest. You are asking for injustice to continue and for your people to continue to endure the violence of poverty, the violence of lack of housing access, the violence of police brutality and not say a damn thing. That’s what you’re asking for.”