AOC’s Republican challenger backs death penalty for police murders Mr. Cuellar has attacked his opponent over the “defund the police” movement, which she and other leftist lawmakers have advocated. “AOC wants to ‘abolish our carceral system,’” Mr. Cuellar tweeted in July. “So, she wants to abolish jails. So, we’ve got ‘defund the police’ and no more jails. That sounds GREAT if you’re a criminal but for the rest of us it sounds like a complete disaster. The longer she stays in office the worse she gets.” In an interview with ABC News last year, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez defended her push to reduce police budgets to spend more on social services, a move that gained momentum in 2020 with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody. “The New York City police department has a $6 billion a year budget,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. “That is more than we spend on youth, housing, health care, and homelessness combined in New York City. … Not enough resources are being put into the very kinds of social programs that prevent crime and social discord in the first place.” Mr. Cuellar’s latest proposal follows the killing of NYPD officers Jason Rivera, 22, and Wilbert Mora, 27, who were fatally shot responding to a domestic dispute call at a Harlem apartment. Officials said 47-year-old Lashawn J. McNeil swung open a bedroom door and opened fire at the officers.
I saw AOC on tv a couple days ago. Instead of weighing in on the police situation right there in her area while it was on most people's minds to some degree, she was all fired up and mouthing off about what Arizona voters should be doing to end Kirsten Sinema's career. What a hack.