AOC and fiancé Riley Roberts on high alert and tighten security at NYC home after death threats following Pro-Palestine fake blood attack

Daily Mail​

4 days ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's fiancé appeared on high alert outside their Queens, New York, home as he was seen with security personnel following the disturbing pro-Palestine vandalism attack on her campaign headquarters.
Riley Roberts, the 35-year-old web developer fiancé of AOC, was seen Tuesday morning guiding security personnel around as they cased out the building for any vulnerable areas, exclusive DailyMail.com photos show.
The 35-year-old congresswoman has received multiple death threats in recent days according to AOC's campaign manager, and her team have called in security to beef up safety measures, a staffer revealed.
Roberts was walking the couple's French Bulldog, Deco, while he was engaged in a serious conversation with a black-clad guard near their newly built Queens apartment complex.
The visibly coordinated security check by AOC's red-haired fiancé came just hours after her Bronx campaign headquarters was defaced with red paint in a disturbing act of vandalism by pro-Palestinian activists.
Roberts, in a baseball cap and dark glasses, was seen talking to the security man and gesturing to the couple's apartment, where they have lived since 2022.
At more than $3,000 a month in rent, their apartment boasts three bedrooms, two bathrooms and private balcony that overlooks over a bustling city street.
The political star has been engaged to Roberts since he proposed during a vacation to Puerto Rico in April 2022. The pair met as undergraduate students at Boston University.
While AOC has become one of the most high-profile Democrats in Congress, Roberts has shied away from the limelight.
There have been few recent public sightings of the couple and no news of their nuptials has emerged since their engagement three years ago.
In 2021, Roberts attended the Met Gala with his fiancée, who wore her infamous 'Tax the Rich' dress.
Yesterday, AOC's hired muscle was seen with two casually dressed colleagues scouting the building and its underground parking garage, before the group snapped the front and side entrances to the building on their mobile phones.
The burly bunch later spent time inside AOC's digs – which are guarded by multiple CCTV cameras – before examining the external keypad residents used to gain access to the building.
The security man also took an intense interest in a DailyMail.com reporter and photographer parked in a legal space on the public street, repeatedly photographing and filming them and their vehicles while walking the area and later cruising past in a blacked-out SUV.
AOC – who has advocated to defund the police - was nowhere to be seen during the private security exercise.
The progressive firebrand spent Sunday in Plattsburgh, the upstate New York district of high-profile Republican rep Elise Stefanik, holding a town hall attacking President Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill'.
Back in Queens, the security posse were tight-lipped about their business at AOC's apartment just hours after the outspoken progressive's campaign HQ was daubed in 'fake blood' by protesters.
A chilling video spread online on Monday showing the congresswoman's Bronx offices splattered with 'fake blood' and a note attached to the front gate reading 'AOC Funds Genocide in Gaza.'
The viral footage of the incident showed NYPD forensic officers investigating the scene and collecting evidence.
An outfit named the Boogie Down Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attack on her HQ, saying 'the Bronx is sick and tired of people like AOC and Ritchie Torres using us as a stepping stone for their own political careers'.
In a statement, the group went on: 'The Bronx stands with the people of Palestine, and we denounce the hypocrisy of AOC who voted to fund Israel's ongoing genocide and starvation campaign in Gaza. F**K AOC!'
In a post on X on Monday evening, AOC's campaign manager Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben said: 'Last night, our campaign office in the Bronx was vandalized and we are in the process of cleaning it up.
'In the past few days, we also have received multiple threats on the Congresswoman's life, and we are treating this seriously with our security partners to make sure she, our staff and volunteers are safe.'
The disturbing attack came after AOC voted against an amendment proposed by MAGA republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to slash funding to Israel's Iron Dome air defense systems by $500million.
AOC, a vocal critic of Israel's actions in Gaza, was criticized by some of her fellow progressive for her stance on the defense spending bill.
But she hit back in a series of social media posts. During the weekend, she posted on X: 'Marjorie Taylor Greene's amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza.
'Of course I voted against it.
'What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue.
'I have long stated that I do not believe that adding to the death count of innocent victims to this war is constructive to its end.
'That is a simple and clear difference of opinion that has long been established.
'I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza.'
In another X post addressing the criticism on Monday, she included screenshots of her voting against the spending bill, adding: 'If you're saying I voted for military funding, you are lying. Receipts attached.
'Drag me for my positions all you want, but lying about them doesn't make you part of the 'left.'