FROM FOX NEWS: The mother of murdered Maryland woman Kayla Hamilton is calling out Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who referred to her daughter as a “random dead person” during a debate on a bill named in Hamilton’s honor.
Crockett, D-Texas, made the comments earlier this month during a House Judiciary Committee debate on the Kayla Hamilton Act.
Hamilton was 20 years old when she was sexually assaulted and strangled in 2022 by a teenager from El Salvador who was in the country illegally and later identified as an MS-13 member.
“You take a situation, and then you exploit what has happened to not only that person, but you exploit those families, and you make it a game,” said Crockett during the hearing.
“Stop just throwing a random dead person’s name on something for your own political expediency.”
Tammy Nobles admits to being “furious” when she heard Crockett’s comments about her daughter.
“You just don’t call a victim of a crime, just a random dead person. No victim should be referred to as a random, dead person,” Nobles told “Fox & Friends First.”
“What she said was really nasty, and it came across as racist.”
Nobles remembers Kayla as a “happy and energetic child,” and supports a bill called the Kayla Hamilton Act meant to intensify screenings of illegal immigrants to identify gang affiliations and criminal backgrounds, as well as the backgrounds of potential sponsors.
Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler, who worked on the case, slammed Crockett’s remarks on “Fox & Friends First,” saying, “Pathetic is the best word I have for it.”
“Kayla was important. Her life mattered. And for Congresswoman Crockett to be so dismissive, so insensitive to a crime victim, any crime victim, it just speaks to the character of who we’re electing from some jurisdictions around this country,” he said.
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