the decision to come forward oftentimes does not feel like a conscious one. you don t say, this is the moment, i m going to do this now. it feels like something happens in the circumstances that almost propels you to it almost forces you in a way to come forward. because i think a lot of survivors would rather never talk about what happened ever again. i think one of the reasons while that impact was double that day is because of the misogyny and the racism that is so deeply rooted and animated that attack on the capitol. white supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways. there s a lot of sexualizing of that violence. and i didn t think that i was just going to be killed. i thought other things were
i think one of the reasons why that impact was so double that day is because of the masmany sanlg any and racism that is so deeply rooted in that attack. white supremacy and patriarchky are very linked in a lot of ways. there is a lot of sexualizing of that violence. and i didn t think that i was just going to be killed. i thought other things were going to happen to me as well. so sounds like what you are telling me is that you didn t only think that you were going to die, you thought you were going to be raped. yeah. yeah. i thought i was. meanwhile the widow of a washington, d.c. police officer is pressing the biden administration for help in declaring her husband s suicide a death in the line of duty.
tonight cnn will debut a new series called being where our own dana bash is down with some of the most powerful and influential people in american politics and culture. here is her clip from her interview with alexandria ocasio-cortez. i think one of the reasons the impact was so doubled that they is because of the misogyny and the racism that is so deeply rooted and animated in that attack on the capital. white supremacy and patriarchy were very linked in a lot of ways. there s a lot of sexualizing of that violence. and i didn t think i was just going to be killed. i thought other things were going to happen to me as well. it sounds like what you are telling me right now is that you didn t only think you were going to die.
patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways. there is a lot of sexualizing of that violence. and i didn t think that i was just going to be killed. i thought other things were going to happen to me as well. so it sounds like what you are telling me right now is that you didn t only think that you were going to die. you thought you were going to be raped? yeah. i thought i was. dana is joining us right now. january 6th was clearly a traumatic day for representative ocasio-cortez. what else did she tell you about the attack there? first, context for what she just said. she told me about so many threats that she had gotten really when she was first elected but leading up to january 6th. so that was in the back of her mind on that day. she was fearful already.
white supremacist and patriarchy is very linked in a lot of ways. there is a lot of sexualizing of that violence and i didn t think that i was just going to be killed. i thought other things were going to happen to me as well. so it sounds like what you re telling me is that you didn t only think that you were going to die, you thought you were going to be raped? yeah. yeah, i thought i was. dana bash joining me now. she was clearly emotional at the end there as your talking about her concerns about january 6th. i mean, as your sitting there, listening and you re there in washington and covering so much of this. hearing her account of that january 6 insurrection, i think it is so powerful. so powerful. and it is just a reminder of the