The people were there to speak out about Alvin Bragg’s disastrous leftwing policies that give preferential treatment to criminals. The Dems showed their depraved indifference by trying to blame the investigation of Bragg as ‘retaliation’ for his bogus charges against president Trump.
The dad of the victim in a brutal anti-Semitic attack lashed out Monday at Jewish Democratic leaders Jerry Nadler and Chuck Schumer, accusing them during a contentious House Judiciary Committee field hearing of ignoring his son’s plight while permitting Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime policies.
Barry Borgen told Nadler, the committee’s ranking member, that he was “disappointed” with his fellow “Jewish New Yorker” over his response to the attack on Joseph Borgen, who was brutally beaten while walking to a pro-Israel rally near Times Square in May 2021.
“I called Mr. Schumer’s office, another Jewish New Yorker, numerous times. No one called us back,” Borgen told Nadler, who reps Midtown Manhattan as well as the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, of his treatment by the Senate’s majority leader.
“You have Jewish roots here, and behavior like this enables DA Bragg to just do whatever he wants to do,” the elder Borgen added. “We wouldn’t vote for Mr. Schumer again. … And if I lived in Manhattan, I wouldn’t vote for you, either.”
Joseph Borgen, 30, who was wearing a yarmulke, was attacked and pepper-sprayed by a pack of men who allegedly hurled anti-Semitic slurs at him. The beating left Borgen with a concussion, an injured wrist, a black eye and bruises all over his body.
Bragg triggered widespread outrage after offering one of Borgen’s assailants, 24-year-old Waseem Awawdeh — who allegedly called the victim a “dirty Jew” — a plea deal allowing Awawdeh to serve just six months in prison.
Two of the other defendants in the case, Mohammed Othman and Mahmoud Musa, were offered sentences of three-and-a-half to 15 years in prison and released on bonds of $150,000 and $50,000, respectively. A fourth suspect, Faisal Elezzi, is out on $15,000 cash bail. All three are still facing felony charges of assault as a hate crime in connection with the beating.
Moments before Borgen spoke, the GOP-led committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), listened to the mother of a murdered Army vet lay into Bragg as the audience cheered her on.
Madeline Brame, who chairs the nonprofit Victims Rights Reform Council, told committee members that Bragg’s mishandling of her son Hason Correa’s 2018 killing began a few months after the district attorney took office last year.
“When Alvin Bragg came into office, he was handed a strong, trial-ready murder case and gang assault case against all four of these individuals,” she said, before recounting how “the case immediately began to unravel.”
“He dismissed — completely dismissed — gang assault and murder indictments against two of the defendants clearly on video participating in the brutal, savage slaughter of my son,” Brame went on. “Hason was kicked, punched, stomped and stabbed nine times by four individuals whom he did not know, nor had he done them any harm.”
Four siblings — Christopher, James and Mary Saunders, and another brother, Travis Stewart — attacked the 35-year-old married father of three outside a Harlem apartment building.
James Saunders pleaded guilty to gang assault and second-degree murder and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, below the maximum of 25 years to life — along with Christopher Saunders, who was also convicted of gang assault and sentenced to 20 years to life.
Travis Stewart also pleaded guilty to gang assault but was sentenced to just seven years in prison. Mary Saunders was released from prison last May on time served after having spent 14 months at Rikers Island.
“Travis will be out in the next 18 months,” Brame said. “Mary Saunders — this savage is currently walking the streets of Harlem like she didn’t just participate in the brutal slaughter of another human being — home with her family, home with her children.
“If that’s not a threat to public safety, I don’t know what is,” she added. “And as far as the Manhattan district attorney’s office, if he’s receiving one penny of federal dollars, you need to pull that funding until he starts doing his damn job and prosecuting crime.”
Audience members broke into applause several times during Brame’s testimony, prompting Jordan to remind spectators of the hearing’s rules of decorum.
US Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York’s top Republican in the House, praised the victims who testified — while chiding critics who tried to smear them.
“It’s important to note that many of the Democrats on this committee have smeared brave victims and fellow New Yorkers here today, calling them props, a circus, a performance, MAGA Broadway props and an underlying sham,” she said.
“What have Republicans focused on? We focused on giving victims a voice. We focused on crimes.”
Members of the committee also heard testimony Monday from the attorney for Jose Alba, the bodega worker who was infamously charged with murder for fatally stabbing a man who attacked him inside the store, and who spent nearly a week at Rikers Island before the charge against him was dropped.
……The proceeding, titled “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan,” is taking place near the offices of Manhattan’s top prosecutor, who charged former President Donald Trump with 34 felony counts of business fraud earlier this month.
But Democrats dismissed the hearing as a partisan stunt orchestrated by Jordan to get back at Bragg for the ex-president’s indictment.
As Bragg arrived to work at his nearby office Monday morning, he ignored reporters’ questions about the controversial congressional hearing.
Hank Johnson is the retard who declared during a hearing that Guam would tip over and capsize if too many people resided on the island. He’s also a flaming anti-Semite who launched into a tirade against Israel, comparing Jewish people who live in disputed territories to “termites” that destroy homes. And of course, he compares Trump supporters to Nazis.
Rep. Hank Johnson says that the witnesses criticizing Alvin Bragg in the New York City hearing who lost family members to violent crime are "props in a MAGA Republican production." pic.twitter.com/4uOuHILYzM
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 17, 2023
WATCH: Madeline Brame, mother of a veteran who was murdered in NYC, TORCHES DA Alvin Bragg for dismissing gang assault and murder charges against her son’s killers. pic.twitter.com/su3dqFq9fp
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 17, 2023
Violent crime has spiked off the charts thanks to the Dems’ defund the police agenda and the refusal of Dem prosecutors to actually keep thugs in jail and charge them with the crimes they commit.
At least 12 major U.S. cities have broken annual homicide records. Guess which party runs them.
Mass looting and riots in Dem-controlled cities is now the norm. Chicago just had another riot by black teen thugs who ran through the streets, physically assaulting people and vandalizing cars. Black Dem Illinois Senator Robert Peters declared “It’s a mass protest against poverty and segregation.” Wrong, asshole. The mob is doing it because they can and they know they won’t be stopped. Maybe they’ll show up on your street and you can describe it as “protest” while they destroy your property.
Every major city run by Dems has the same inherent problems with crime. This is what you get when you allow the animals to run the zoo.
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