AOC stalker sentenced to 60 days in jail

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. AP Photo/Susan Walsh

By David Brand

A Queens man arrested for stalking U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sentenced to 60 days in jail Friday.

Douala Hashi, 31, was arrested in June for violating an order of protection after visiting Ocasio-Cortez’s Jackson Heights office despite being ordered not to. 

Hashi, a Jamaica resident, pleaded guilty to criminal contempt and was sentenced by Judge Scott Dunn.

Dunn also issued a full order of protection preventing Hashi from approaching Ocasio-Cortez, said a spokesperson for the Queens district attorney’s office.

Ocasio-Cortez has received multiple death threats and been the subject of consistent, creepy attention since she defeated ex-U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary for New York’s 5th Congressional District in June 2018.

A Louisiana cop was recently fired after he advocated for someone to shoot Ocasio-Cortez in a Facebook post. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is also investigating agents who posted threats and discriminatory, vile memes about the first-term member of Congress in a popular CBP Facebook group.