On Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put her anarcho-socialist seal of approval on the anti-cop demonstrations that went down in Brooklyn on Friday night. Her defiant tweet of support included a video of demonstrators jumping over subway turnstiles, yelling insults at police, and chanting, “How do you spell racist? N-Y-P-D,” according to Fox News.
That video posted by a third party was later deleted from Twitter.
“Ending mass incarceration means challenging a system that jails the poor to free the rich,” the congresswoman, whose district includes parts of the Bronx and Queens, tweeted. “Arresting people who can’t afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community. New Yorkers know that, they’re not having it, and they’re standing up for each other.”
Ending mass incarceration means challenging a system that jails the poor to free the rich.
Arresting people who can’t afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community.
New Yorkers know that, they’re not having it, and they’re standing up for each other. twitter.com/rafaelshimunov …
A multitude of other videos from the November 1 chaos remain online.
People protest NYPD policing the MTA by mass hopping the turnstiles pic.twitter.com/Roli76gPMX— barely informed with elad 🕵🏻♂️ (@elaadeliahu) November 2, 2019
More protesters hopping the turnstile: