Ocasio-Cortez made her comments in a Twitter post, where she also expressed her sympathies to communities and families impacted by the shooting and the verdict.

“What we are witnessing is a system functioning as designed and protecting those it was designed for,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

“My heart still breaks for the communities and families whose grief now compounds, and the countless others who will be denied and deprived in similar scenes across the country,” she added.