Murdered veteran's mom torches Democrats over crime: 'Done nothing but help community self-decimate'
Victims Rights Reform Council Chair Madeline Brame joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the heated testimony before the House Judiciary in NYC regarding her journey to justice following her son's murder.
The mother of a murdered veteran made national headlines after a heated exchange she had with a Democrat during the House Judiciary Committee's crime hearing in New York City.
Victims Rights Reform Council Chair Madeline Brame, who lost her veteran son to a stabbing back in 2018, accused politicians of ignoring her and other victims as critics blame Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for being too lenient on the city's most violent criminals.
"I've been so ostracized. I've been so shunned and ignored by these people that are in power for all these years… not just me, but all the victims," Brame said during "America's Newsroom," Tuesday. "I would be very angry if he was willing to listen to me express myself… and then we can put our heads together and try to come up with some solutions then that would work."
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"But on the onset, I'm angry - not just for the way me and my family and my grandchildren were treated and my son, but for all the hundreds and thousands of others," she continued.
Brame's son, Army veteran Hason Correa, was brutally beaten and stabbed in Harlem before he died. The prosecution for the cases dragged on for more than four years, and Bragg ultimately removed the indictments against two of the suspects in favor of lesser charges. Two others ended up receiving life sentences.
The heated exchange took place Monday with Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., when she accused him of trying to "insult" her intelligence after he told her she was not able to respond during her testimony.
Goldman used his time to explain that he believes Republicans held the hearing in order to "cover up" for Donald Trump, who was indicted by Bragg last month. This came after Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., accused the witnesses of being political "props" to help the GOP protect the former president.
"We're not insulting you. Your experiences are devastating, but the problem is, is that this is a charade to cover up for an abuse of power. [Republicans] are going around incessantly, outside of this hearing, about Donald Trump, and the purpose of this hearing is to cover up for what they know to be an inappropriate investigation [into District Attorney Alvin Bragg]," Goldman said.
Brame asked if she could respond, but Goldman said "not right now."
Brame shot back: "Don't insult my intelligence. You're trying to insult me like I'm not aware of what's going on here. I'm fully aware of what's going on here, OK? That's why I walked away from the plantation of the Democratic Party."
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During the Tuesday segment, co-host Bill Hemmer asked Brame why she changed her political affiliation.
She said everything changed in 2020 when she really started listening to the former president.
"That comes from being a 40-year loyal Democrat, voting Democrat since I'm 18 years old," Brame said. "Because that's what Black people do, is vote Democrat… Getting nothing in return for a vote. Dilapidated housing, failing schools, poverty, crime, unemployment, and we're voting the same way, generation after generation after generation – until 2020, when I started listening to Trump."
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Brame noted that Black voters can be conservative without being Republicans, explaining that faith, family, and country are critical values to the community.
"The Democratic Party has done nothing but help our community self-decimate from the inside out, and that's what is doing. It's rotting from the inside out," she said.
Brame testified alongside other crime victims on Tuesday, including Barry Borgen, whose son was beaten in an antisemitic hate crime, Democratic NYC councilman Robert Holden, Paul DiGiacomo, who is the president of the NYC Detectives' Endowment Association, and others.
DiGiacomo is a longtime New Yorker, who said earlier during "Fox & Friends" that he has never seen crime in the Big Apple to the degree that it is present now.
"I've never seen it like this," DiGiacomo told co-host Ainsley Earhardt Tuesday. "I've never seen… district attorneys not prosecute crimes at the level that they're doing. Three of the district attorneys, two are very good… we need to have law and order, and the district attorneys work together.
"I've never seen it like this before in my career in law enforcement," he continued.
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Last year, more than half of felony arrests were downgraded to misdemeanors under Bragg's watch, according to the FOX Brain Room. This was a 13% spike from the year before.
Additionally, only half of felony cases resulted in a conviction last year, an 18% reduction from the year before.
Fox News' Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
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