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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Lake and Riley is a victim of a horrific crime. Horrible…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Jon Stewart & AOC Take On Trump’s Comeback and Rebuilding the Democratic Party The Weekly Show

Published | Video Starts at 41:39

This kind of encapsulates a lot of what you just said. Lake and Riley on its face. Republicans brought this and they say, well, you know, if you are, by the way, Lake and Riley is a victim of a horrific crime. Horrible, horrible murder by, I believe, an asylum seeker or an undocumented person. Right. But apparently who had, like, a criminal record. Yes. Who had committed crimes. Now, first and foremost, her family explicitly asked that her name not be politicized or used or wielded in this way. (41:39–41:53)

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