Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “The president himself has asserted that in fact, one of the…”

“It is becoming an anti civilian paramilitary organization. People are getting taken off of the streets for exercising their free speech rights. The president himself has asserted that in fact, one of the reasons that this murder may have been quote, unquote justified is on free speech grounds. So this is now turned into what our greatest fear is and has been for a long time around ice, that this will be used as an anti civilian force, that it has no accountability.” (00:43–00:54)

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