Mamdani’s “blatant trigger” cuts down on delinquent police as “political theater”

New York City Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani tried to distance herself from previous anti-police remarks on Wednesday, a move that New York elected official and a crime expert told Fox News Digital that was verbal service.

Mamdani has long criticized the New York Police Department for calling for a refund in 2020. He also often referred to it as a “racist” and said the department’s strategic response team should be dissolved. In another social media post, Mamdani posted “Naturally Recovering” in response to comments about laughing at him crying in the car.

However, after Wednesday’s shooting in Midtown Manhattan, New York Police Department officials died, and Mandani said his call for funding to police was “frustration” from the death of George Floyd.

His comments made several people in the community disbelief that he did make the page compete with the police and believed that walking was politically driven as the city was caught up in the worst mass shooting of a half-century.

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“Zohran ‘Nature Is Healing’ Mamdani’s Wednesday presser struck me as a cynical and transparent attempt at damage control in response to an incident that served as a violent and somber reminder to New Yorkers of the enormous daily risks taken on their behalf by the men and women of the NYPD,” Rafael Mangual, senior fellow and head of research for specizing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, told Fox News Digital.

Mangual went on to explain that Mamdani’s explanation of his previous statements was not far enough.

“But even in the tragic situation of a press conference, Mandani had multiple opportunities to explicitly withdraw or apologize for the history of his long and dirty anti-political statements,” Mangual, who Write an article at the New York Post’s press conference in Mandani on Thursday.

“When he faced his past remarks, he seemed defensive and even found a way to reiterate his previous criticism of the unit, which led to a reaction to a mass shooting in Midtown Monday night. Not only was it necessary to undo the image of the anti-professional cutter that Mamdani had cultivated for years.”

New York City Republican Councilman Inna Vernikov, a A blunt critic Mamdani told Fox News Digital that Mamdani’s press conference showed he disrespectful voters “because he thinks we’re too stupid to notice such blatant flip-flops.”

“He spent years slamming the NYPD and pushing a radical agenda, and he didn’t compete until now because he finally realized that the city supports our police and doesn’t want a socialist mayor,” Vernikov said. “No one with a brain is buying it.”

Jake Blumencranz, a New York Republican state legislator, is a colleague of Mamdani, told Fox News Digital that Mamdani’s press conference was a “political theater.”

“Don’t rewrite history,” Brumoklands said. “While murdered a policeman and an innocent New Yorker in New York City, Zohran Mamdani is not even in the city – he is in a protected compound in Uganda.

The deadliest New York shooting in decades holds center in mayoral game

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani briefly spoke to reporters as she left the Dickson Senate office building in Washington, D.C. on July 16, 2025. Zohran, who attended a breakfast event hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.), is expected to meet with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who is not yet recognized later this week. (Michael M. Santiago/Hoto by Getty Images)

Blumencranz said Mamdani, who was known as “absent colleague”, has established a “movement to demonize law enforcement” that has become his “brand”.

“He called the NYPD evil and corruption.’Refund. Remove it. End the violence cycle and push for the dissolution of units that respond to the shooting,” Brumokrantz said. “Now, after the first victory and mass shooting tragedy, he wants voters to believe that their beliefs are/just ‘not good’? It’s not growth – it’s not the political theater. New Yorkers, especially those mourning Islam, deserve honesty, not opportunism, not dressed up as evolution.”

Fox News Digital contacts Mamdani campaigns.

Mamdani attended Thursday’s funeral for New York Police Department official Didarul Islam, who was killed in the shooting in Midtown Manhattan.

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, former Governor Andrew Cuomo and current New York City Mayor Eric Adams are also participating in the Independents.

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The Republican candidate from New York City Mayor Curtis Sliwa’s left-heart center greets the New York Police Center. Errol Murphy outside the Parkster Murphy Mosque is in New York on Thursday, July 31, 2025, ahead of the funeral of Islamic Instructor officials in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis) (AP)

Mamdani shone in a press conference on Wednesday, talking about the Islamic officer, meeting with the official’s family and answering questions about his previous call for a return to the police.

“I didn’t run for donating to the police,” Mamdani said, saying he was “timely without a fixed candidate, a candidate for learning and leadership, part of which means admitting because I’ve grown up, part of it means focusing on the people who should be focused.”