During a GOP-led House hearing in New York City on Monday, victims of violent crime in Manhattan placed a significant portion of the responsibility on District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his policies, ripping him publicly.

“Repeat offenders are plaguing New York City,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan as the hearing opened.

“Our plan this Congress, has been to include field hearings in some of our greatest cities to analyze and highlight how soft on crime policies hurt families, hurt communities, hurt small business owners. … What better place to start than New York City where videos of violent, senseless attacks appear almost daily,” he added.

Democrats on the committee maintained their belief that the hearing was politically motivated, especially in light of Bragg’s recent decision to file a 34-count federal indictment against former President Donald Trump, Just the News reported.

“I am a willing participant,” Madeline Brame, whose son was murdered about five years ago, shouted loudly in response to those accusations.

She also said Bragg has left “all types of criminal elements free to do what they want when they want however they want, to whomever they want with no consequences, no deterrence.”

Brame’s son, Army Sgt. Hason Correa, was fatally stabbed in New York City in 2018, and she claims that Alvin Bragg mishandled the prosecution of his assailants.

“When Alvin Bragg came into office, he was handed a strong, trial-ready murder case and gang assault case against all four of the [accused], where this brutal savage homicide was captured on video,” she said.

“As soon as he took office, the case immediately began to unravel. He dismissed – completely dismissed – gang assault and murder indictments against two of the defendants clearly [seen] on video,” she added.

The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, was among those in his party who accused Jordan of “doing the bidding of Donald Trump.”

He also said committee Republicans “designed this hearing to intimidate and deter the duly elected district attorney of Manhattan, who has been doing the work his constituents elected him to do.”

During the hearing, committee member Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, contended that district attorneys with progressive policies, especially those in major U.S. cities, who received campaign contributions from progressive billionaire mega-donor George Soros, are too lenient on crime, including providing lesser penalties for violent criminals.

“Increasingly, George Soros is putting in upwards of $40 million to elect 75 DAs to be able to engage in these downgrades,” Gaetz said. “And by the way, not only are they downgrading the violent things, they can’t even win the cases they try.”

He also said Bragg has “earned a reputation for caring more about the perpetrators of crime than the victims.”