SI Army vet’s line of booty
House hopeful’s 2019 strip tease
Conservative Staten Island voters might take issue with this captain showing her privates.
Former Army officer Brittany Ramos DeBarros, a socialist looking to unseat Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in the borough, bared more than her soul at an antiwar burlesque show at a Brooklyn bar, video obtained by The Post shows.
“In Staten Island where you have a disproportionate number of police, corrections officers and other law-enforcement personnel who have served in the armed forces, this burlesque making fun of the armed forces will not go over well,” longtime Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf told The Post.
“In the era when Democrats are seen as disorderly and out of control, all this does it make it more difficult to elect Democrats.”
The wild evening took place at Starr Bar in Flatbush in December 2019, when the retired captain and Afghan war vet stripped off her fatigues to reveal red lingerie while gyrating to Edwin Starr’s hit protest song, “War.”
Three women in pasties thrusted and heaved against DeBarros during the performance, where the nowcandidate went by the stage name “Captain Unbecoming.”
After an extended twerk, she went fully topless — to the Disney tune “Let It Go.”
DeBarros, who deployed to Afghanistan in 2012, became a fierce critic of the conflict and claimed she was almost courtmartialed for “posting facts” about the war while still in uniform.
“I was a captain in the army. I was deployed to Afghanistan. I was like, ‘This is bulls- -t,’ ” she told the Brooklyn crowd, adding that after her return she became committed to “anti-war, anti-imperialist [and] anti-racist work.”
DeBarros posted video of the performance to her Instagram page using the hashtag #dropbootiesnotbombs.
“When you see me pause and cover my face in the first video it’s because I’m actually overwhelmed with emotion and how liberating it felt to angrily tear that uniform off in front of an audience,” she wrote.
“I’m proud of this show, and it still brings me so much joy to watch myself step into long undernourished pleasure and passion.”
DeBarros has raised more than $350,000 since January, Federal Election Commission records show, with the majority of it coming from out-of-state donors. She is a Democratic Socialist and wants to tap into the same energy that helped power Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman to their upset victories.
The cash will likely make her a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary, where she will face the district’s former Rep. Max Rose — also a military veteran and a decorated first lieutenant.
DeBarros did not return a message seeking comment.