Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says She Feared Being Sexually Assaulted On Jan. 6

"White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways," the lawmaker told CNN's Dana Bash. "There's a lot of sexualizing of that violence."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said she was afraid on Jan. 6 that she would be sexually assaulted if the violent pro-Trump mob that breached the U.S. Capitol that day managed to find her. The lawmaker, who has spoken about how she hid for hours in the barricaded office of a colleague during the violence, discussed the day of the insurrection in an interview with CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash, set to air Monday night. “White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways. There’s a lot of sexualizing of that violence,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed. I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.”