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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) shared conflicting thoughts on the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Thursday afternoon, saying people view denied insurance claims as “violence,” yet insisting she was not justifying the purported assassination of the executive.

“I think that this collective American experience… all of that pain that people have experienced, is being concentrated on this event,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

“And it’s really important that we take a step back. This is not to comment, and this is not to say that an act of violence is justified,” she continued before explaining that people may be viewing the murder in different ways.

“But I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them,” the congresswoman said.

“People go homeless over the financial devastation of a diagnosis that doesn’t get addressed, or you know, the amount that they’re going to have to cover with a surprise bill and things like that. And we kind of talk about how systems are violent in this country in this passive way,” she said, blasting the privatized health care system and concluding that it is “like that for a huge amount of Americans.”

“I mean, I did not have, I did not have health insurance until I got elected to Congress,” she continued.........more........