![]() ![]() "In between the screams and the yells," Ocasio-Cortez added, "I mean, I thought I was going to die." It felt like my brain was able to have so many thoughts." Maybe it was 5 seconds, maybe it was 10 seconds. "And the weird thing about moments like these is that you lose all sense of time," Ocasio-Cortez continued. Samuel Corum/GettyĪs the individual banged on the door, Ocasio-Cortez believed "this was the moment where I thought everything was over." ![]() Ocasio-Cortez said was hiding behind the door "and then I just start to hear these yells of, 'Where is she?'"ĭemocratic New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday that she hid in the bathroom as people invaded her office during the riot at the U.S. There's another kind of like back area to my office, and I open it, and there's a closet and a bathroom. "And so I run back into my office," Ocasio-Cortez said. Ocasio-Cortez said that an individual actually entered her office, forcing her to take refuge inside her bathroom after her legislative director Geraldo Bonilla-Chavez told her to "hide, hide, run and hide." Many observers have blamed Trump's continued baseless claims that the election had been manipulated by Democrats as part of the reason for the riot. Some lawmakers were forced to go into hiding or shelter in place. In an attempt to disrupt the Congressional certification of President Joe Biden's electoral college win, supporters of former President Donald Trump breached the Capitol building. Democratic New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed during a Monday Instagram live-stream that she thought she was going to die during the January riot at the U.S. ![]()
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