On Tuesday, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty on all counts for the murder George Floyd by saying, “It’s not justice.”
AOC argued that George Floyd should be at home with his family, and that a single trial isn’t a “substitute for policy change.”
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Ocasio-Cortez made her comments in an Instagram video.
“This isn’t justice,” @AOC says in an Instagram live. “Justice is George Floyd going home to his family tonight.”
“I don’t want this to be framed as the system working—b/c it’s not working.. It’s really important that this verdict is not used as a replacement for policy change.” pic.twitter.com/SkMoOkDuyu
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 20, 2021
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“It’s not justice,” AOC said. “I’ll explain to you why it’s not justice.”
The far-left Democrat continued, “It’s not justice because justice is George Floyd going home tonight to be with his family.”
Ocasio-Cortez then mentioned other alleged police brutality victims and other reasons why she believed justice was not achieved with the Chauvin verdict.
.@AOC says the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin is "not justice."
Then lists a bunch of things she says she would consider justice. pic.twitter.com/CDxPwWinDg
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 20, 2021
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“Justice is Adam Toledo getting tucked in by his mom tonight,” AOC said. “Justice is when you’re pulled over, there not being a gun that’s part of that interaction because you have a headlight out.”
“Justice is your school system not having or being part of a school-to-prison pipeline,” she continued.
“Justice is a municipality and a government that does not — because it trickles down right? — that does not value military and armaments more than healthcare, and education, and housing.”
AOC then condemned the entire justice system.
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“So, no, this verdict is not justice,” Ocasio-Cortez began to wind down. “Frankly, I don’t even think we call it full accountability, because there are multiple officers that were there.”
The three other officers involved in the death of George Floyd will stand trial later this year.
“It wasn’t just Derek Chauvin,” the “Squad” member finished. “And I also don’t want this moment to be framed as this system working, because it’s not working.”
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AOC also tweeted on Tuesday, “That a family had to lose a son, brother and father; that a teenage girl had to film and post a murder, that millions across the country had to organize and march just for George Floyd to be seen and valued is not justice.”
“And this verdict is not a substitute for policy change.”
That a family had to lose a son, brother and father; that a teenage girl had to film and post a murder, that millions across the country had to organize and march just for George Floyd to be seen and valued is not justice.
And this verdict is not a substitute for policy change. https://t.co/tiDkhl9Dk4
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 20, 2021
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I do not waste time listening to stupid people.
if he was white , no news , completely overblown
This woman who runs her mouth more than her brain needs to shut up because more often then not she speaks before she knows what she is talking about. She spews hate and discord constantly.. Floyd had warrants for his arrest for passing counterfeit bills, and had a long criminal history. Floyd was a convicted criminal who spent as much time in prison as he did out. He had domestic violence convictions and major felony convictions for drug possession and sales. He was no choir boy. He and the others would likely be alive if they didn't fight with police and resist arrest. Where was all this accountability when I was on the job in the 90's when a black man shot me. That man only got 15 years.
Say Ms. or Mrs. AOC, according to The US Constitution To The Letter And Word, That Verdict Is ILLEGALLY AND UN-US CONSTITUTIONALLY GIVEN, Because Mr. GF Had A Arrest Warrant For The Very Same Infraction's, From Mr. GF's Past CRIMES, Of The Likes Of ILLEGALLY Passing Counterfeit US Currency, And Resisting Arrest, All Because Of Constant Use Of Illegal Prescription DRUGS, Which He Illegally Consumed Before And During Being Arrested, And The Resisting Arrest Action, Concerning Those Illegal Prescription Drugs Adverse Affects And Reaction Of Mr. GF's Biologically Internal Combustion System = Reaction!!!
What does she want? Does she want their bodies sent home so Mom can tuck them in bed? They're dead! It's tragic, but you can't change that. The best you can do is punish the ones who killed them (if they are guilty of something). That is justice. Justice can't restore a life, it only hopes to make others consider the consequences of their actions and hopefully deter them from making the wrong choices. The system works in the best way that it can.
You are correct Mr. or Ms. or Mrs. Snowbird, the verdict was handed out to the Wrong Human Being! The Left Side Of The Questionable US Political Equation Turned The US Constitution Inside Out And BackA__Wards!!!
The world and humans are not perfect , there will always be things in this world that seem and are unfair or unjust. The justice system has run its course and a verdict was handed down. So please you out of race war baiter STOP. Haven't we lost enough. Haven't enough on both sides lost enough to satisfy your pure hate for this country? It has always puzzled me , how these so called leaders and Hollywood and sports moguls, and the business elite, are all screaming for change change change, yet all they are doing is the same thing as always, saying loot burn steal and hurt who ever disagrees. Sounds to me like they like us fighting so they can keep their side jobs of fleecing ALL AMERICANS. We are playing right into their hands. They don't care about this country or the people not matter if we are black brown white or whatever. All they want is the hate to continue, ACO is stealing her district blind, as long as you aren't looking at her. Think
About how many of our freedons have disappeared since this hate was started by the Obama government just something to think about
Justice would have been for criminal drug user George to have accepted his punishment for doing the crime and not resisted arrest and gone straight to jail!!!
If she's frustrated now, just wait until the state court of appeals reverses for verdict against weight of the evidence and BLM rioters and Maxine Waters intimidation, and state supreme court confirmation of the reversal, then US Supreme Court's refusal of a writ of certiorari, when her eyes will really pop and she's liable to bust a gasket. Black lives don't matter that much. Or brown or yellow or red or white.
AOC, like her fellow leftists, only knows how to whine, moan, and complain. NOTHING is ever good enough for them, because IF things were good, leftists, who exist on fear, victimhood, "oppression", "social justice" (ughhh!), and all their other "TIHSLLUB" leftist propaganda, would be out of jobs. Leftists exist by scaring people into submission, so life MUST always be unfair, unjust, blah, blah, blah. Anger, and resentment, is the left's lifeblood…
You will never see justice until you see all police gone so dream on!!
Oficer Chauvin's trial was not a trial but a well orchestrated lynching and all the teary-eyed, trembling, hyper-sentimental cover up orchestrated by AOC and Company points directly to that deception. The more deceptive, false, immoral and criminal the Democrat actions are the more they need to be cover it with sob stories and tear-jerking fraud. AOC just watched too many of those psychotic, hyper-sentimental Latino "novelas" (soap operas). She delusionally lives in one of those "novelas" where a useless third rate bartender poses as the social justice champion and savior of the world.
Can someone please kneel on AOC’s neck and do away with her, the world can afford to loose that bar tender.
Why do the left keep electing morons?
AOC is gravely failing to acknowledge that George Floyd was a criminal. While I do not agree with Derek Chauvin placing his knee on George Floyd's neck, we need to also acknowledge that George Floyd had quite a history of being a criminal. Criminals of any color can not be allowed to get away with their criminal behavior.
Stupid has met its match with Cortez.
so many of you think there was no punishment necessary for Chauvin. My first reaction is that the judge or the prosecuting attorney saved this country with the types of charges they delivered to the jury. The convictions are severe enough to extract a pound of flesh, but not to make Chauvin a cause celebre'. . But if you equate his ugly misdeed in handling a known criminal, with the actual horrific mistake made by the career – 20 year – lady cop, you are nothing but vultures. She has to live with herself for killing that young person. She was yelling at him that she would taser him , then screwed up big time. I feel sorry for her and the young man.
What we should ask is why are these young teens keeping dangerous company. Why are they out after midnight? Why do they resist arrest if they are guiltless. My guess is that the Left is soul -less One of their first targets has been religion. That is because in communism , there is no God. The party is God. But the major religions have a code of ethics. Of morality. The 'Party' does not. They distort the value of right from wrong. For instance, look at how little has been said in the news about the the poor cab driver who was dragged from his car by two wayward teenage girls…..and killed . And all one could say was that she left her cell phone in his cab. That's a distorted reality. A lack of perspective of right from wrong.
THIS LIFE FORM IS GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CIVIL WaR.
She is unlikely to survive the first day
AOC, why don't you keep your big fat mouth shut? You are so STUPID, no one is listening to you. You don't know what you are talking about most of the time and you won't try to research anything before opening that ugly mouth.
the expression bird brain comes to mind
AOC needs to go back to the corner of 5th and main and accepting $5.00 for spew !!!!
I want a real meltdown like the wicked witch in Wizard of OZ
Like Locust who"s only mission is to destroy and Death which is never satisfied…. so is AOC
Why is AOC still around? I can't think of one thing she's done for her district or anything else that might have a redeeming value to it. She's loud an obnoxious…just like a 'rip-saw' fart.
Just remember, she was paid what she was worth $2.35 per hour according to her own statements and she was probably being overpaid at that.
Tell her go back and bar tend.
Epstein's death removed a problem for many interested parties. Chauvin's would simply compound the travesty which was his "trial", thus removing a problem for the government.
So sad but probably, actually so true 😢 for Chauvin. But there’s different circumstances for what Epstein did and was doing, along with many others that was, and is, still involved.
Chauvin was lucky. In some countries they burn them alive, hang them, stone them to death, just to appease the mobs. He will probably go the same mysterious way Epstein went, or beaten up by black prison warders like the Capitol arrestees.
She’s right he should have been acquitted. Multiple charging is also illegal in most cases how can you be guilty of killing someone three different ways????
AOC, IS A BIgMOUTH JACKASs and should shut that mouth once and for all.
Enough of this insipid moron already!!
Does aoc have a brain in her head? I am so tired of them making these criminals out to be saints. Do any of these POS MORONS ever mention the people they have damaged like the PREGNANT woman he punched in the stomach when his POS friends were robbing her house. mad max is another POS who should be kicked out of congress for al the steeling of Tax Payer money her & her POS daughter have stolen!!!
Floyd's family didn't care ONE BIT about him. You can bet if someone told his family they would receive $27 million and all they had to do is say Floyd could be killed to get it they would have said "go for it!"
The stupidity of that failed Bar Maid is, if nothing else, pure entertainment…dangerous? Only to fools that take her seriously and those with IQ of less than 75 {her voters} ..
I think AOC is a clueless FOOL on SO MANY levels!!! Her views are TOTALLY one sided. So, what about all the law enforcement officers that are gunned down needlessly for simple traffic stops, domestic abuse calls, serving warrants, etc.? You don't hear her, or anyone else, spewing venom, being outraged and violently demonstrating. I'm sorry, but life is rarely 'fair'. All this politically correctness is absolute foolishness!! Everyone needs to put on the big person pants, learn to deal with every day unfair life and quit thinking you are the only one in the world that needs to be considered!!! There is always a few bad apples in every bunch, but I believe that the majority our law enforcement people are dedicated, brave people that literally lay their lives on the line on a daily basis!! Lately the world has gone completely NUTS!!! As it is written, evil will be called good and good will be called evil. I believe that AOC and others along her mindset are smart people, but so COMPLETELY IGNORANT!!!!
AOC makes my system want to vomit.
Here's the quote: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty on all counts for the murder George Floyd by saying, “It’s not justice.”"
What she doesn't say is that because we are a systemically racist society, the only true justice is that the entire country must be convicted of the murder of GF. I guess that includes all the non-white minorities. And the illegals. They sure get a lot of (sometimes unintended) mileage out of that word "systemic."
Maybe this witch could raise him from the dead!
Poor Lemon (no brain) Accused "only people with half a brain of feeling justice was served". Apparently all democrat politicians also have on brains. Just a bunch of robots.
A total brain dead Democrat…we must vote these FRONTAL LOBOTOMIES out. TRUMP 2024
The mindset of this girl is beyond my imagination. How did she qualify to be in Congress? Voters stupidity maybe.
Maxine Waters needs to be permanently expelled from congress.
Dear Political Insider! Why should I care, if somebody doesn't like my language. There is actually NOTHING that like coming Washington Democrats. The witch of the West, Maxine Waters needs to be censored on all levels. That is what I care about and along with her a whole bunch of others.
Another Obnoxious Communist will never be satisfied with the current justice system. She is a communist. Her idea of justice is finding him guilty, whether he is or not, taking him out into a public square and hanging him. That filthy bug eyed wench really should learn to keep her mouth shut
Does anybody give a hoot, what that nutcase, @AOC has to say. She needs to go back to bartending.
And we know how power corrupts…esp. politicians!
"If you want to know a man's character, give him (her) power." Abe Lincoln
But I don’t think the ones that can do that, other than WE THE PEOPLE, will ever even begin to listen to what we say or much less think or how WE THE PEOPLE feel about anything.
I do not want to hear descriptions of what AOC is or isn't. We all know that she is a piece of trash anyway. The discussion that is needed is how do we make an immediate change in how we are being influenced by congressional constituents. Waters, and AOC plus 98% of all of congress anyway. Recall…? How does one influence the New York los IQ voters to recall AOC..? How do we force the California district where Mad Max Waters is suppose to live….and doesn't. Recalls are worthless in terms of time. Waiting for their current term to expire….yeah…then we see that the same voters voted the same way as they did to put their trash into office before. Same old stuff…! So what I am saying folks…..we need to focus on solutions and not the problem.