AOC Outraged Cops Didn’t Treat Pro-Gun Rally Like Violent Black Lives Matter Riots

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed were “almost no police officers” at Monday’s Second Amendment rally outside the Virginia Capitol and suggested this proves America is racist.

Ocasio-Cortez made the inaccurate observation on stage at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Harlem. The New York Democrat spoke protesters gathered in Richmond in opposition to sweeping gun control measures that could be enacted next week by Virginia’s Democratic-controlled government.

While discussing what she said was America’s founding in “tenants” of “racism,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “There’s this gun rights protest happening down in Richmond.” . . .

She then unfavorably contrasted the pro-gun rally with the 2015 riots in Baltimore, Maryland, following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.

“But here’s the image that has struck with me the most about that,” she said. “When we go out and march for the dignity and the recognition of the lives of people like Freddie Gray and Eric Garner, the whole place is surrounded by police in riot gear without a gun in sight. And here are all of these people flying Confederate flags, with semi-automatic weapons and there’s almost no police officers at that protest.” (Read more from “AOC Outraged Cops Didn’t Treat Pro-Gun Rally Like Violent Black Lives Matter Riots” HERE)

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