Then I hear these huge violent bangs on my door and then every door going into my office. There were no yells, no one saying who they were, nobody identifying themselves and just boom, boom, boom. I hide back in the bathroom behind the door. And then I just start to hear these yells of, where is she? Where is she? And this was the moment where I thought everything was (BLEEP) over (BLEEP). I mean, I thought I was going to die.
AOC recounts her terrifying experience during the Capitol insurrection.
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