AOC played video games with Walz while voters protested prostitution in her “Third World” district

Right as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DY, live-streamed her ‘Madden’ NFL video game session with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, on Twitch, her constituents took to the streets to protest the rampant illegal prostitution and crime in the neighborhood she represents.

The progressive “Squad” member was criticized by fellow Democratic politician Hiram Monserrate for playing the video game on the streaming service Sunday afternoon as residents in her district held a rally calling for a cleanup of their community.

“We need advocates, not gamers,” Monserrate, a former New York state senator who is running for the State Assembly, told Fox News Digital.

The Queens neighborhood is known as a “Red Light” neighborhood, with some residents comparing the unsanitary and seedy conditions to a “Third World” country. Rally organizers say the area is “under criminal siege,” while protesters carried signs reading: “Children should not be exposed to prostitution” and “save our community.”

Ocasio-Cortez and Walz jumped on the streaming service during NFL Sunday games to gain more support from male voters before Election Day. Both were scheduled to start on Sunday at 3 p.m.

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A woman at the meeting, holding an anti-prostitution sign, left. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DY, live streams her “Madden” NFL video game with vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., on Twitch Sunday, top right. A sex worker in the Ocasio-Cortez neighborhood last month, bottom right. (Ramses Frias | Twitch | Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)

“We should be ashamed of all the elected officials who did not show up to the public safety meeting or advocate against failed policies, like defunding the police, that have proven catastrophic for our community,” Monserrate told Fox News Digital.

The meeting – which brought together local leaders, residents, merchants and clergy – sought to draw attention to crime in the area and express support for a police crackdown on the illegal activity dubbed “Operation Restore Roosevelt.” The operation aims to crack down on bigoted behavior in the coming weeks, with more than 200 additional police officers, including state troops, deployed to the area. The demonstration was organized by Monserrate and the local advocacy group Let’s Improve Roosevelt Ave. Coalition.

Sex workers are known to line the streets, while illegal vendors clog the sidewalks selling hot food and various merchandise. Several other raids have taken place since the operation started two weeks ago.

Protesters say they want the extra boots on the ground to become a fixture in the area. Monserrate says more than 300 people attended the rally in Queens, where they demanded a two-mile stretch of Roosevelt Avenue be cleaned up.

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Last month, Fox News Digital cameras captured a line of at least 19 alleged sex workers scantily clad on a sidewalk a block along Roosevelt Avenue. Around the corner there were at least seven others, and a woman on the next block was witnessed offering sex for $60.

Fox News Digital even took one alleged sex worker and her client from a well-known brothel that has been robbed at least twice in recent weeks. The meeting took place just steps away from that location.

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“The Roosevelt Avenue Corridor was under criminal siege where various organized crime entities, drug gangs, human traffickers, pimps, prostitutes and shoplifting syndicates operated with impunity. Roosevelt Avenue had become an urban crime zone,” the group said in a press release.

The rally took place just days after Monserrate was chased from a nearby public square while speaking to the press while a demonstration in favor of prostitution and illegal sales took place.

“Understand this: Organized crime is running a multi-million dollar human and drug trafficking operation,” Monserrate said. “That’s what we have here on Roosevelt Avenue! 911 Alert for all governments. We will tirelessly defend this community and call out those who oppose a better and safer community for all.”

The Roosevelt Avenue strip is represented by “Squad” member Ocasio-Cortez and fellow democrat Representative Grace Meng. Ocasio-Cortez and Meng did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the meeting. Monserrate said neither Meng nor Ocasio-Cortez responded to his requests to attend rallies to clean up the streets of Roosevelt Avenue.

Protesters hold signs against prostitution. (Presented by Hiram Monserrate)

The battle between sex workers and illegal sellers on the one hand, and public order advocates on the other, has been raging in the neighborhood for years.

Many sex workers and illegal sellers are active in the area are migrants. Because they speak limited English and have difficulty accessing legitimate work, they say they have been forced onto the streets to survive and insist that what they do does not hurt anyone.

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Other residents say conditions have deteriorated and their neighborhood is almost unrecognizable.