AOC Explains Moment She Thought She Was Going To Die During Riot

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: "I just thought to myself, 'They got inside.' And so I hide behind my door, like this, like I'm here, and the bathroom door starts going like this. Like, the bathroom door is behind me — or rather in front of me, and I'm like this, and the door hinge is right here, and I just hear, 'Where is she?! Where is she?!' And this was the moment where I thought everything was over. And the weird thing about moments like these is that you lose all sense of time. In retrospect, maybe it was four seconds, maybe it was five seconds, maybe it was ten seconds. Maybe it was one second, I don't know. It felt like — my brain was able to have so many thoughts in that moment between these screens and these yells. 'Where is she?! Where is she?!' And so I go down and I just — I mean, I thought I was going to die. And I had a lot of thoughts, you have a lot of thoughts, (Laughs), I think, when you're in a situation like that. And like, also, one of those thoughts that I had, you know, I just happen to be a spiritual person and be raised in that context, and I really just felt like, you know, if this is the plan for me, then people will be able to take it from here. I had a lot of thoughts, but that was the thought that I had about you all.”