House Republican uses AOC’s insult to rip silence on 2 cops shot allegedly by migrant gang member: ‘Baby girl’

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., chided Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for failing to comment after two police officers were shot in her New York City district allegedly by a Venezuelan gang member. 

Malliotakis used Ocasio-Cortez’s own words that the progressive Democrat had hurled during a fiery exchange with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., last month during a congressional hearing. 

“Hey Baby Girl,” Malliotakis wrote on X Tuesday night, tagging Ocasio-Cortez. “Two cops were shot in your district by an illegal immigrant who we NOW find out is a Venezuelan gang member being housed in a hotel at our constituents’ expense and you still have NOTHING to say about it?? Really?” 

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The House Republican, whose district also includes New York City, included a screenshot of a report by the New York Post stating that sources told the outlet 19-year-old Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, arrested in the shooting of New York City Police Department Officers Richard Yarusso and Christopher Abreu, has a tattoo that signals to investigators he could be a member of Venezuela’s “bloodthirsty” Tren de Aragua gang. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional office for comment early Wednesday. 

Authorities said Castro Mata illegally entered the United States last July near Eagle Pass, Texas, and was staying at a migrant shelter in East Elmhurst, Queens. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a fiery exchange during a House Judiciary hearing, called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “baby girl.” (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Though he has no prior arrests in New York City, police said Castro Mata is suspected in a string of robberies and is part of a crew using motorized scooters to commit crimes. 

The shooting unfolded just before 1:45 a.m. Monday at the intersection of…