{"id":116382,"date":"2025-08-03T19:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116382\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:45:21","slug":"zohran-mamdani-has-a-lot-of-explaining-to-do-to-cops-and-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116382\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani has a lot of explaining to do to cops and NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a bitter gunman stormed a Manhattan office tower last week and killed four people including an NYPD officer,<\/a> wannabe mayor Zohran Mamdani was about as far away from New York City as he could possibly have been.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, the frontrunner in the race to become mayor of the nation\u2019s largest city, was in Uganda, of all places, to celebrate his marriage<\/a> in February to his bride, Rama Duwaji<\/p>\n

Nothing wrong with that. Last I checked, New Yorkers are pro marriage and very pro honeymoon.<\/p>\n

Mamdani was born in Uganda, has relatives there. and wanted to celebrate his wedding with his family abroad.<\/p>\n

Still, some candidates and critics chastised Mamdani for his overseas absence after New York City\u2019s deadliest shooting in decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand why you go to Uganda for two weeks, frankly, in the middle of a campaign,\u201d said former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

This from the guy who lost.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, a Queens assemblyman, beat Cuomo in June\u2019s Democratic primary, and Cuomo\u2019s run as an independent is looking like a longshot.<\/p>\n

But Cuomo was definitely on to something when he criticized Mamdani for his record on the police.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s first stop<\/a> after landing at Kennedy Airport from Uganda was the Bronx home of Police Officer Didarul Islam, one of the four victims of the Midtown shooting.<\/p>\n

Mamdani arrived carrying flowers.<\/p>\n

But what he didn\u2019t have was a decent explanation about why he has been so out of touch with police over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,\u201d Mamdani, a democratic socialist, tweeted in 2020. \u201cWhat we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.\u201d<\/p>\n

Awkward.<\/p>\n

After Mamdani\u2019s meeting with Islam\u2019s family, Mayor Adams, who is running for re-election as an independent, tore into Mamdani for his claims that he would cut the NYPD\u2019s Strategic Response Group (SRG) \u2014 the task force that responded to Monday\u2019s deadly mass shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you start dismantling the pieces of the law enforcement apparatus that are specifically designed to carry out functions, that is extremely dangerous,\u201d Adams, a retired police captain, told CNBC.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, who is 33, said his views are evolving, and that he was caught up in the fervor of the George Floyd murder. He said he no longer advocates defunding the police, but he doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019s in a rush to defend them, either.<\/p>\n

The last thing New York City needs is a mayor who thinks cops can do no wrong.<\/p>\n

But the next to last thing New Yorkers need are cops who don\u2019t think the mayor has their backs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s bad for morale, and sets a dangerous tone.<\/p>\n

Mamdami said he plans to attend Islam\u2019s funeral, which will be filled with cops whose union has already backed Adams.<\/p>\n

After NYPD officer Jason Rivera was gunned down in 2022, his widow, Dominique Luzuriaga, ripped Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg during a eulogy at the cop\u2019s funeral over policy changes that could put some criminals back on the street.<\/p>\n

And after NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed in 2014, hundreds of cops lining the streets outside their funerals turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/a> for backing demonstrators who were protesting a Staten Island grand jury\u2019s decision not to indict any cops\u00a0 in the police chokehold death of Eric Garner.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, who\u2019s already off to a bad start with cops, has a lot of explaining to do. He might start by helping New Yorkers understand why there was so much security at his lavish Uganda party.<\/p>\n

According to reports, Mamdani spared no expense to keep his guests safe, with military style commando guards and a phone-jamming system.<\/p>\n

Whoever thought you could feel safer at a party in Uganda than you could on a subway platform?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a stretch for New Yorkers to wonder why they don\u2019t deserve the same protection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a bitter gunman stormed a Manhattan office tower last week and killed four people including an NYPD…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5295,8988,728,405,403,5296,8989,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-116382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-politics","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-opinion","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114966557143757204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}