ABC News Falsely Portrays AOC, Ilhan Omar as Being Handcuffed

As viral video revealed on Tuesday, ABC News promoted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) propaganda when it shared photographs seeming to show her and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) being led away in handcuffs by police.

The two radical “Squad” members were filmed with wrists together behind their backs as if they were handcuffed while being escorted by police away from a pro-abortion protest at the Supreme Court. The charge was crowding, obstructing or incommoding, police said.

At one point, AOC temporarily forgot she was supposed to be cuffed, and raised a “fight the power” fist into the air. She then resumed her fakery.

ABC News neglected to mention that “no handcuffs were seen” until several paragraphs deep into its report.

Conservatives on Twitter slammed ABC News for the aiding and abetting the fake news. Sen. Ted Cruz advisor Steve Guest, for example, called out the purported news outlet, tweeting, “ABC can’t honestly use these photos. AOC and Ilhan Omar are PRETENDING to be handcuffed.”

But of course, ABC News isn’t honest, and neither are AOC or Ilhan Omar.

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Ocasio-Cortez Says America Is “On a Precipice of Fascism and a Return to Jim Crow”

In a January 26, 2022 appearance on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, Ocasio-Cortez praised 83-year-old leftwing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s decision to retire while Democrats still held control of both the Senate and the White House: “[T]here’s no way of saying what’s actually in Justice Breyer’s mind. But I do believe that the urgency of this moment — the fact that the country is very clearly on a precipice of fascism and a return to Jim Crow, the sweeping attack on voting rights in this country and the very real threat of seeing what happened with the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg passing during the Trump presidency — that we could very well risk something like that happening again. And if that was part of his calculation, I think he was correct in his conclusion.”

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ABC News Falsely Portrays AOC, Ilhan Omar as Being Handcuffed

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Ocasio-Cortez Says America Is “On a Precipice of Fascism and a Return to Jim Crow”

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