AOC was afraid she was going to be raped during the Capitol siege: ‘I didn’t think I was just going to be killed’

• AOC told CNN that she was afraid she was going to be raped during the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.
• “There’s a lot of sexualizing of that violence and I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed,” she said.
• “I thought other things were going to happen to me as well,” she added.
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Dana Bash that she was afraid she was going to be raped on January 6, when a mob of pro-Trump insurrectionists laid siege to the US Capitol in a failed effort to overturn the 2020 election results.

“One of the reasons why that impact was so double that day is because of the misogyny and the racism that is so deeply rooted,” which “animated that attack on the Capitol,” Ocasio-Cortez told Bash in an interview for CNN’s new series, “Being,” which will air Monday at 9 p.m. ET.

“White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways,” the New York congresswoman continued. “There’s a lot of sexualizing of that violence and I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed. I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.”

Bash replied, “So it sounds like what you’re telling me right now is that you didn’t only think that you were going to die, you thought you were going to be raped.”

“Yeah,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

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