Protesters attempt to disrupt New York crime victims’ hearing by branding Republicans as ‘traitors’

Chaos erupted at the Manhattan Judiciary Committee hearing with protesters demanding to be let in, and Chairman Jim Jordan having to tell the Witness Division to be quiet several times due to explosions of applause as he testified.

Pro- and anti-Jordan protesters clashed with police in an attempt to remove them from the hearing room, while Manhattan DA crime politics chairman Alvin Bragg bashed.

Meanwhile, inside the commission room, Jordan had to remove several people from the witness section after chaos broke out as a protester shouted “Jim Jordan I love you!” and “Ralph Nadler, you are a disgrace!” a reference to Arrangement member Jerry Nadler.

In this country, justice is supposed to be blind regardless of race, religion or creed. Yet here in Manhattan, the scales of justice are weighed down by politics,” Jordan, R-Ohio, said in his opening statement.

Nadler, a New Yorker himself, said in his opening statement that the hearing was simply a way for Republicans to pass water on to former President Trump.

The demonstrators demand to be allowed into the hearing room

Bragg arrives at his office with heavy security while Jordan holds a hearing about his politics

“Let me be very clear, we are here for one reason and one reason only. The president is doing Donald Trump’s bidding,” the Democrat said.

He called Jordan’s political theatrics since Bragg’s indictment of Trump an “outrageous abuse of power” used to “perpetuate anti-Semitic and racist tropes” that Trump has unleashed against Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is also investigating Trump’s finances.

“It is—to use the term chiefs’ favorite—the arming of the federal government.”

Prior to the hearing, Judicial Democrats joined by Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference to respond to the narrative that New York City is unsafe.

“Welcome to the safest major city in America,” said the mayor.

“We need to focus on how we deal with the gun violence that stifles America, and let the DA do its job, which is the job it does.”

But Democratic City Councilman Robert Holden voiced his opposition to Bragg’s policies.

Holden said he would live in the high-crime era of New York in the 1980s, but that “I’ve never seen lawlessness like this in my life.”

“All pharmacies are closed and open,” Holden said. “It is too bad – these petty crimes Mr Bragg said he would not prosecute. My loyalty is not to the party it is to my constituents.

Madeleine Brame, president of the Victims’ Rights Reform Council and mother of a self-killed victim, told the panel that under Prague, all kinds of criminal elements are free to do what they want when they want, however they want, however they want, with no consequences and no deterrence.

She said federal funding should be withdrawn from the DA’s Manhattan office.

“They do absolutely nothing.” And I suggest that another cent of our federal tax dollars be poured into these organizations so that they can achieve some measurable results for the effectiveness of what they do with our taxes to protect the public.

Brame’s son, army veteran Hasson Correa, was fatally stabbed in Harlem in 2018.

Correa, 35, married father of three, was beaten and stabbed to death by a group of attackers in an altercation outside an apartment building. Two of Correa’s attackers cut a deal with Manhattan prosecutors, and one of them was let go on time.

In this country, justice is supposed to be blind regardless of race, religion or creed. Yet here in Manhattan, the scales of justice are weighed heavily by politics,” Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said in his opening statement.

Jim Jordan takes part in much of the Washington political scene. Representative Jerry Nadler said, “He should know better than to take his hard work to Broadway.”

The man who stabbed Correa was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

“If you take a life, you live,” Brame said, arguing that even stabbing was not properly judged. “There should be no plea bargains for murder.”

“They treated us like trash,” Bram said of Bragg’s office, adding that the office had not told her it would offer plea deals on people involved in the murder.

Jose Alba also testified about the “terrible experience” he had when the native of Prague accused him of murder when he stabbed a man who attacked him at the bodega where he worked.

I’m not here because I support the Republicans. I’m not here because I want to criticize the Democrats. I just want to tell the public about the horrible experience I had with crime in this city.

“Although the charges were eventually dropped, they should not have been brought against me to begin with,” Alba said through his attorney. I am now traumatized by the incident. I don’t work because I’m terrified for my life.

The Democrats brought in witnesses to point out that many crimes occur at a lower rate in New York City than anywhere else in the country.

Jim Kessler, vice president of the forward-thinking Thanks Third Way, indicated under Nadler’s cross-examination that New York’s murder rate is 18 percent lower than the national average.

What we found when we looked at the data between 2000 and 2020 is the homicide rate in the red states, as defined by the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump in 2020…the homicide rate in the red states was higher than the homicide rate. In the blue states, and all those 21 years.

“If Republicans really wanted to stop violent crime, they’d be in Washington right now working with Democrats to pass sensible gun legislation,” said Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson.

Crime rose in New York City in 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic (before Bragg took office) after a mostly decade-long downward trend. Major crimes are up about 22 percent in 2022 – with Bragg taking office on the first day of that year.

New York recorded 438 murders in 2022 — up from 319 in 2019 before the pandemic.

From April 2022 to April 2023, major crimes remained roughly the same, although murders, shootings, and robberies decreased.

The city is even safer in 2022 than it was during a dangerous period in the 1980s and 1990s — murders and robberies are down 80 percent in 2022 compared to 1990, and rapes are down 50 percent.

The Judiciary Committee, along with Oversight and Administration, has waged an all-out political war against Prague over the indictment, and recently launched a subpoena for Attorney General Mark Pomerantz, who previously worked in Prague’s office and wrote a book about the need to prosecute Trump. .

Madeline Brame, above, will testify at the New York City Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday. Her son was stabbed to death in 2018

Hasson Corea, a U.S. Army veteran, was stabbed to death in Harlem in 2018 and two of his attackers obtained plea bargains with a light ruling 10993537

Alba shared with DailyMail.com the injuries he sustained in the attack

On Tuesday, Bragg sued Jordan in the unusual move of trying to prevent him from interfering in the criminal case against Trump.

The suit accused Jordan of a “scandalous and unconstitutional attack” on Trump’s impeachment trial after the committee subpoenaed Bragg’s former employee, demanded documents and planned a field hearing in New York.

Prague lawyers seek to block Pomerants’ summons from Jordan.

Pomerantz tried to convince the DA that Trump should be sued – but resigned when Bragg rejected his legal theories.

Prague has refused to comply with document requests from the chairmen of the three committees relating to Prague’s contacts with the Ministry of Justice. Bragg called the Republicans’ interference improper in a criminal case.

The charges against Trump were unsealed last week and included 34 counts of falsifying business records related to $130,000 hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and “capture and kill” payments made by the National Enquirer to Playboy model Karen McDougal and a janitor who allegedly had the story of Trump’s alleged love child. with a housekeeper.