Fox Business host Charles Payne revealed on Fox & Friends on Wednesday that his niece was the victim of a shooting in Harlem just two weeks ago.
Payne joined Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt, Steve Doocy, and Lawrence B. Jones on Wednesday morning primarily to discuss inflation and President Joe Biden canceling another $7.7 billion in student debt, but Payne turned to his niece after talking about Donald Trump campaigning in the Bronx this week.
Payne praised the former president for making the trip and wished he would also swing by Harlem soon.
“I wish he would go to Harlem. Two Mondays ago, my niece was shot on the street that I grew up on. My niece was shot on the street that I grew up on!” he said. “She doesn’t even hang out there; she doesn’t live there on the block anymore, but a good friend of mine who I’ve known for 45 years, her son passed away, and they were having a memorial for him, and so these guys — the gang violence is on the rise so much, it’s so underreported — so they come around with their masks, they’re shooting crazy, one third floor apartment was all busted up.”
Payne said it was a gang shooting, and both his niece and his friend were caught in the crossfire. His niece was released from the hospital on Monday after surgery.
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“Our country is really getting so cracked apart where the haves are doing extraordinarily well and again they live in safety and they eat their avocado toast and the rest of us, whether it’s in places where the opioid epidemic is out of control or places like — my neighborhood was being gentrified, but this gang thing is really amazing. I had no idea it was this bad,” Payne said.
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