AOC Tears Into ‘Fox And Friends’ Over Segment Linking Her To Fatal Shooting

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After “Fox and Friends” ran a segment on a fatal shooting by a member of the MS-13 gang in a subway station, linking the shooting — which occurred in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) district — to the congresswoman’s calls to abolish ICE, the freshman lawmaker tore into the show’s hosts.

“Unlike these people, I actually care about my community,” she said in a tweet. “We’ve been monitoring this heartbreaking situation and have been working with the community to heal.”

In the Friday morning segment, Fox repeatedly broadcast graphic cellphone footage of the shooting, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed was carried out by a member of MS-13 and is known to be in the U.S. illegally, according to the Daily Beast.

“We have video of him being murdered in the district of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” co-host Brian Kilmeade said.

“Now, if the only hope we have of kicking this guy out before he can kill somebody, shoot somebody, is ICE. And that’s what they do, to try and hunt them down,” he continued. “So you would think that maybe the people might be upset at ICE for maybe not getting there quick enough. … But no, not her. Ocasio-Cortez after, I imagine, seeing this horror, is upset that ICE even exists. She cried about it. And you just watched these border negotiations, as you see this horrible scene going down.”

As the video of the murder played on repeat on the screen, the chyron said, “AOC WON’T FUND ICE DESPITE MS-13 MURDER,” before Fox played a clip of the congresswoman talking about her push to defund the agency over human rights abuses.

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  1. Those people got their training from Radio Moscow.

  2. Avatar for theod theod says:

    Still waiting for what F&F has to say about the undocumented immigrants working at TrumpCo golf courses and resorts throughout the land. And wait forever we will. Idiots.

  3. Bottom-feeders.

    Unpresidented Tweet coming in 3…2…1…

  4. Fox ‘News’- “We represent the WORST of America!”

    There are ~350,000,000 people in America
    Fox’s most popular program draws ~2,000,000 people.

    The best they can do is attract less than 1% of America. So who cares what these fringies ‘think’?

  5. The kids on the couch are only reading from their State Run TV script. After Tucker’s breaking news last night of ‘PROGRESSIVES DON’T TIP!’ we know exactly how much credence to give these people.

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