.@AOC on the uptick in crime in NYC:
"Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent & are scared to pay their rent…they need to feed their child and they don't have money so… they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry." pic.twitter.com/G54Mrk4RQp
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) July 12, 2020
I’m sure that’s why there’s been an incredible rise in shootings in NYC.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed during a virtual town hall that the increase in crime in New York City could be because residents don’t have enough money to pay rent and are forced to shoplift.
Ocasio-Cortez held a virtual town hall meeting Thursday that was broadcast from her official Facebook account and took questions from her constituents, which included inquiries about the recent spikes in crimes.
“Do we think this has to do with the fact that there’s record unemployment in the United States right now? The fact that people are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the Great Recession?” the New York Democrat said.
“Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out, and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money so … they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry.”
This guy was probably looking for bread, and the victim and his little daughter just got in the way in AOC’s district.
Warning graphic.
THE NEW NYC: Just one of the around 50 shootings NYC was hit with this past weekend. In this brazen daytime drive-by shooting, a man was shot and killed while walking with his 6-year-old daughter Sunday in Mount Eden in the Bronx on east 170th & Sheridan. pic.twitter.com/WDdnvr0qj2
— Nachmen Donn (@NachmenDonn) July 6, 2020