Louisiana police officer, responding to a debunked fake news story, says Ocasio-Cortez should be shot
A Louisiana police officer suggested in a Facebook post last week that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot, mocking her as a “vile idiot.”
Asked by NOLA.com for a reaction to Rispoli’s now-deleted post, Chief Arthur Lawson called it “disturbing,” but did not see it as a threat. The violent statement comes amid President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks against Ocasio-Cortez and three other progressive Democrats ― Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
“I‘ve had mornings where I wake up & the 1st thing I do w/ my coffee is review photos of the men who want to kill me,” she wrote, noting that she doesn’t even see them all ― only “the ones that have been flagged as particularly troubling.”
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