Police Officer Suggests Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Shot, Calling Her A 'Vile Idiot'
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Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holds an immigration Town Hall in Queens on July 20 in New York City
A police officer in Louisiana suggested in a social media post that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot, calling the progressive Democratic congresswoman from New York a "vile idiot."
"This vile idiot needs a round," officer Charlie Rispoli wrote in a Facebook post referring to Ocasio-Cortez last week, according to a screenshot first reported by New Orleans news site NOLA.com on Saturday. "And I don't mean the kind she used to serve," he continued. Before becoming a member of Congress, Ocasio-Cortez worked in a New York City bar as a bartender.
Rispoli, according to NOLA, has been on the Gretna police force since 2005. The department's police Chief Arthur Lawson told the local news site that the post was "disturbing" and appeared ... less
