Protesters interrupt AOC town hall, speak against vote for Ukraine aid: 'You're the liar here'

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AOC heckled at town hall: 'You are playing with our lives'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was confronted by hecklers during a town hall Q&A who told her she is "playing" with American lives by supporting aid for Ukraine. (Credit: Twitter @JosBtrigga)

A pair of protesters shouted down Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday during a town hall.

Ocasio-Cortez participated in a Q&A session in the Bronx, New York, on Wednesday. During the town hall, she fielded questions about illegal immigration, the opioid crisis and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ocasio-Cortez was interrupted by two political activists. One heckler identified himself as Jose Vega, while the other remains unnamed. 

"Congresswoman, none of this matters unless there's a nuclear war which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine," one of the protesters shouted. "Tulsi Gabbard, she's left the Democratic Party because they're war hawks."

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"You originally voted — you ran as an outsider. Yet you've been voting to start this war in Ukraine. You're voting to start a third world war with Russia and China," the man continued.

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Protesters interrupted a Wednesday town hall held by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., criticizing her vote for military aid for Ukraine, in the Bronx, New York. (Twitter @JosBtrigga via Fox News)

The duo later took to social media to explain themselves and their motivation for disrupting the congresswoman's town hall.

"My friend @Noggatone and I confronted Congresswoman [Ocasio-Cortez] on her support for Nuclear War and Ukrainian Nazis," Vega wrote on Twitter. 

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He added, "I call her out for being a coward in the face of the party that will push us all into Nuclear war right now. Will she stand up like [Tulsi Gabbard] and fight for peace?"

Fox News' Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.