D.C. man refused to leave AOC's Queens office building, sprays cops with extinguisher

[RandySF]

A Washington, D.C. man was charged with trespassing after he refused to leave Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office building in Queens and tried to barricade himself inside a janitor’s closet, cops said Sunday.

Douala Hashi, 31, entered the Jackson Heights building on 37th Ave. near 74th St. a little before 5 p.m. Saturday and ran up to the third floor. When he wouldn’t get out, building security officers called police.

When cops arrived on the third floor, Hashi grabbed a fire extinguisher and sprayed it at the officers. He then ran into a janitor’s closet with a broken bottle but the officers were able to coax him out, police said.

Hashi was charged with menacing, criminal mischief and trespassing. He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. His arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending.

The NYPD says the man never broke into Ocasio-Cortez’s actual office, which opened in March. Authorities do not believe he had any connection to the congresswoman, who was not in the office at the time of the incident.



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/ny-man-charged-trespassing-aoc-queens-office-20190616-bmfu4l2hfjd25eogynq4vu27by-story.html

[Beringia]

1. I wonder if she represents some ancient archetype

that misogynists have been trying to suppress for millennium.

[gratuitous]

3. She does seem to spur the crazy

Reminds me of Arundhati Roy's quote: "I was the worst thing a girl could be: thin, black, and clever."

[struggle4progress]

2. We lock up the little crazy people, and let the big crazy people wander freely everywhere