She pleaded with the audience to settle down, but the protests grew louder, eventually morphing into a full-blown pro-Trump chant.
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As James walked up to the podium, some people in the crowd clapped and others booed. The booing grew louder, prompting James to address the matter before beginning her official remarks.
“Oh, come on. We’re in our house of God,” James said to the crowd as they heckled her.
“First,” James said, trying to begin her remarks. She paused and appeared to be waiting for the booing to subside.
“Simmer down. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for getting it out of your system.”
The booing remained loud during the first couple minutes of James’s remarks, which honored the Rev. Pamela Holmes-Saxton, who was being sworn in as the FDNY’s first African American female chaplain.
A few minutes into the speech, the heckling peaked as some in the crowd began chanting “Trump” in an apparent display of loyalty to the former president, who faced off against the New York attorney general in the sprawling civil fraud case against his business empire.
