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

At the exact moment, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was live-streaming her “Madden” NFL video game session with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, on Twitch, her constituents took to the streets to protest illegal prostitution and crime in the neighborhood she represents.

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

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

The borough of Queens is well known as a “Red World” neighborhood, with some residents comparing the unsanitary and poor conditions to a “Third World” country. Organizers of the rally 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 Sunday NFL games to secure more support from male voters before Election Day. Both were scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday.

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“Shame on any of the elected officials who didn’t show up for the public safety rally or advocate against failed policies like police protection that have proven catastrophic for our community,” Monserrate told Fox News Digital.

The gathering — which brought together local leaders, residents, merchants and members of the clergy — sought to draw attention to crime in the neighborhood and show support for a police crackdown on illegal activity called “Operation Roosevelt Restoration.” The operation aims to crack down on criminal behavior over the next few weeks, with more than 200 extra police officers deployed to the area, including state troopers. The demonstration was organized by Monserrate and local advocacy group Let’s Improve Roosevelt Ave. Coalition.

Sex workers have been known to line the streets while illegal vendors clog the sidewalks selling hot food and assorted goods. There have been more raids since the operation came into force two weeks ago.

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

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Last month, Fox News digital cameras recorded a row of at least 19 alleged scantily clad sex workers on a sidewalk one block along Roosevelt Avenue. Around the corner, there were at least seven more, and a woman in the next block was witnessed offering sex for $60.

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

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

The rally came just days after Monserrate was kicked out of a neighborhood public square while speaking to the press while a demonstration in favor of prostitution and the illegal sale was taking place.

“Understand this, organized crime runs a multi-million dollar human and drug trafficking operation,” Monserrate said. “This is what we have here on Roosevelt Avenue! 911 alert for all those in government. We will tirelessly defend this community and call out those who oppose a better, safer community for all.”

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

The battle between sex workers and illegal vendors on the one hand and law and order enforcers on the other has been going on in the neighborhood for years.

Many illegal sex workers and vendors operating in the area they are migrants. With limited English and difficulty accessing legitimate work, they say they are forced to take to the streets to survive and claim that what they do is not hurting anyone.

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