Way back in the ancient times of 2019, prior even to the death of St. George Floyd, the exalted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her radical Squad were already on the "Defund the Police" movement, claiming that police make people unsafe.
Back then, New York came up with a plan to increase safety of its citizens by adding 500 police officers to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Of course, police-hating queen of the radicals Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, may she live forever, had serious problems with this plan.
Adding police officers, meant to serve and protect the citizens of New York, was seen as "punishing the poor" to the mighty AOC.
Now flash forward to April 2022:
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A racist black supremacist executed a mass shooting in the New York Subway system.
Hmm, I wonder if more police may have been a good thing in this case?
From BizPac Review:
In light of the recent subway shooting in New York City, a 2019 letter from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other progressives calling to defund the police has been put in the spotlight.
Multiple signatories to the letter continue to "stand by" the original letter urging then Gov. Andrew Cuomo to abandon a plan to put 500 more officers in the subway despite the many people who believe that more police in the subway system could have prevented the crisis.
"Punishing the poor does not create a safer environment. Instead it threatens the very foundation of our community. That is why my New York colleagues and I wrote a letter to @NYGovCuomo asking him to help put an end to MTA's dangerous policing policy," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter along with a photo of the letter in Dec 2019.
"In our view desperately needed resources would be better invested in subway, bus, maintenance and service improvements," the leftists wrote. "We are urging the MTA to divest from this current model of criminalization."
The plea was signed by Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Jerry Nadler, former Rep. Jose Serrano and State Sens. Alessandra Biaggi, Julia Salazar, Michael Gianaris, Luis Sepulveda and Jessica Ramos, among others.
According to AOC, crime in the subway is definitely not as big an issue as, say, bus maintenance.
Gotta love her buzzword "divest" (in 2020 we learned this meant defunding police and giving money to leftist priorities instead).
Maybe, you know, we should stop listening to people like this??
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