Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wondered aloud Monday whether a Capitol Police officer who barged into her office to direct her to a safe location during the Jan. 6 riot was actually trying to protect her or not.
"Like so many other communities in this country, just that presence doesn't give you a clear signal if you’re safe or not, so the situation did not feel OK," Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said of the moment when an officer entered her office.
She said the officer had "anger and hostility" in his eyes, and she questioned whether or not he had been trying to put her in a "vulnerable situation."
"He was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility. Things weren't adding up," Ocasio-Cortez continued. She said her staffer had also not known if the officer was there to "help us or hurt us."