Why Zohran Mamdani will be ‘one of the most catastrophic mayors ever’



As mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani continues to lead the New York City mayoral race and Election Day for the next mayor looms closer, so does the city’s impending doom, according to BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales.

“He could be one of the most catastrophic mayors to ever, ever be in New York City,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

And while many Americans will drown out the goings-on in faraway places like New York City, Gonzales warns that just because you may not be potentially living under Mamdani’s rule, you will still be affected by it.

“The financial capital of the entire world — it actually affects all of us,” Gonzales says.


In a recent interview on Fox News, Mamdani was asked by Martha MacCallum if he had any intention of changing his mind on bail reform after hearing the story of an elderly man beaten to death on the subway by a 25-year-old who was out on bail when he allegedly killed him.

“Does that make you want to change your mind or think twice about reversing that?” MacCallum asked.

“What it makes me think about is the necessity of providing public safety in our New York City subway system and across the five boroughs. And also, how do we end the revolving door? Because when you look further into the case … what we find is so often the only mental health system that we have that’s functioning in this city is Rikers Island,” Mamdani said.

“It’s a revolving door because you keep letting them out,” Gonzales comments. “There’s a solution. You just keep them in prison. We keep the dangerous criminals away from society. It’s very, very simple, Zohran.”

And in a podcast interview, Mamdani was asked whether or not prisons are “obsolete.”

“I mean, what purpose do they serve?” Mamdani asked. “I think we have to ask ourselves that, which is that, you know, I think a lot of people who defend the carceral state, they defend the idea of it and the way it makes them feel.”

“I will be the first to admit it does make me feel much safer to have criminals locked up … and I will never be bashful about sharing that, ever,” Gonzales says.

“What purpose does it serve? Oh, I don’t know. It keeps law-abiding citizens safe. It’s really that easy,” she adds.

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Anti-Israel Microsoft Employees Arrested for Storming President's Office Partner With Bail Fund Led By Murderer Who Bashed Man's Skull With Hammer

When a group of current and former Microsoft employees was arrested for storming the office of the company's president, they spent just a few hours in jail. That's likely thanks to the Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF), a group that uses Democratic dark money to free heinous criminals convicted of violent crimes.

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Trump Signs Order Aimed at Eliminating Cashless Bail

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate cashless bail nationwide by threatening to revoke federal funding from cities and states that release suspects before trial without requiring cash bail.

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Creep grabs young woman waiting for train and tells her, 'You're mine now.' But men nearby aren't about to let that happen.



A 20-year-old woman who wants to remain anonymous told WCBS-TV about her terrifying experience that began as she was heading to the Norwood Avenue subway station in Brooklyn on her way to her lifeguard job.

Suddenly a male — a complete stranger to the woman — began violating her.

'What was going through my head was, like, ''I'm just not going to see my family again.'' That was it, I was just not gonna see my family.'

"And he's putting his arms around me, and I'm pushing him off of me, and I'm like, 'I don't know you,'" she told the station.

The woman added to WCBS that when she was on the platform waiting for her train, the male reappeared.

"He's like, 'Come on, let's go.' And I'm like, 'I don't know you,'" the woman recalled to the station. "He comes close to my face, and he's like, 'You don't know me.'"

WCBS said the victim argued with her assailant, told him to get away — and then he grabbed her.

"When the train came, like I said, he got more aggressive, and that's when he, like, bear-hugged me to the point where, like, my arms are restricted," she recounted to the station. "The only thing he just kept saying was, 'You're mine now, you're mine now, you're coming with me, you're coming with me.'"

A witness captured video of the attack, and in it the woman can be heard screaming.

Rondel Whitfield told WCBS in an initial story that he was on his way to church when he witnessed the attack in progress and soon got involved.

"I said, 'Brother, please, just let the lady go. You know what I'm saying? Let the lady go.' He's like, 'No.' He just started being real barbaric. Like, I've never seen nothing like that in my life," Whitfield recounted to the station.

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The New York Post said "several men" gathered on the elevated platform and hollered at the attacker to let the woman go. The paper said the attacker allegedly shoved the woman to the ground and bear-hugged her as she tried to run away a second time, according to police and prosecutors.

"What was going through my head was, like, 'I'm just not going to see my family again.' That was it, I was just not gonna see my family," the victim told WCBS in a subsequent interview. "That's why I called my mom."

The bystanders then pulled the victim away from her attacker, police told the Post, adding that they appeared to hit him as one of them yelled, "I'm gonna f**k you up!" Video shows men on top of the attacker punching and stomping him.

"Somebody try to tell you something, chill the f**k out?" one of the men is heard saying in the aftermath of the beatdown, the paper added. "Now you got it!"

The woman finally was able to escape and is seen in the clip running to the other end of the platform and crying on the phone with her mother, the Post said.

"She was just saying, 'Mom, he's trying to take me, he's trying to take me,' and I'm, like, trying to run to her as fast as I can," the victim's mother recounted to WCBS.

The victim noted to the station that she got to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority booth, and an MTA worker helped her get inside it for safety and then moved her into another room until police arrived.

"About the guys that stepped in, I'm very, very, very thankful because without them, I would not be home," the victim recounted to the station.

Police said the victim complained of shoulder pain and suffered minor injuries to her stomach and arms, WCBS reported, adding that her mother said that while her daughter is traumatized, she's been able to go to work.

"I'm very, very grateful for those that were there helping my daughter," the mother told the station. "I am so, so, so, so grateful 'cause if it wasn't for you guys, I wouldn't have my child today."

The video below is from the follow-up WCBS story and includes an interview with the victim.

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Police have identified the suspect as 42-year-old Fredrick Marshall of Queens, WCBS said. Police told the station that the suspect had a knife and blackjack on him. A blackjack is frequently described as a leather stick weighted with lead that's used for striking.

While Marshall has been charged with two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree assault, and second-degree harassment, the Brooklyn district attorney's office told the station that the charges aren't bail eligible, and Marshall has been on supervised release.

"It's unacceptable," the victim told the station in regard to the suspect being set free. "It's really insane to me how they could just release somebody after they did that."

BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre had the following to say about the incident and its aftermath.

"Many people have asked 'Where have all the good men gone? Why aren't they protecting women?' Everyone saw what happened to Daniel Penny for protecting his fellow subway passengers," MacIntyre told Blaze News. "Now these men have stepped up and protected a defenseless woman, but her attacker is immediately out on the streets. This is anarcho-tyranny. The people of New York City are governed by disastrous progressive polices that get innocent people killed."

The victim also told WCBS that her employer has been paying for her to take Ubers to work and that she wants to see more of a police presence at subway stations.

"I still haven't fully processed what happened to me," she added to WCBS.

The station said the victim is working on getting an order of protection from the DA's office.

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Texas murder suspect's bail reduced from $800,000 to $200; he's released after paying cash. Gov. Abbott is not happy.



A Texas murder suspect was released from jail last week after his bail was reduced from $800,000 to $200, KEYE-TV reported.

The station on Friday noted the drastic bail reduction for 19-year-old Stephon Martin Morson of Austin; Morson was charged in connection with the October death of 20-year-old Keshawn Cage, who was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the southeastern part of the city.

'I’ve lost confidence in the system. I just don’t think I can confidently say they are doing everything in their power to keep people like this behind bars.'

Travis County Jail told Fox News that Morson was booked Nov. 6 and charged with murder and tamper/fabricate physical evidence.

But KEYE said Morson was released Friday on the $200 cash bond and was no longer listed as an inmate at the jail by Saturday. The Travis County Sheriff's Office told the station the new cash bond total was $100 for each charge.

KEYE said conditions tied to Morson's release are that he wear a GPS monitor, remain under house arrest, and not contact the family of the victim or potential witnesses.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott blasted the bail reduction:

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"This is outrageous," Abbott wrote. "It's why I made bail reform an Emergency Item. We must prevent leftist judges from releasing dangerous murderers out on our streets. Those responsible for this release should be held legally liable if anyone is harmed by this criminal."

The president of the Austin Police Association, Michael Bullock, told KEYE the bail reduction is irresponsible: “These stipulations can be put in place, but we’ve seen how people ignore house arrest orders, they cut ankle monitors. We have seen instances in San Antonio and Harris County where people have been freed after being accused of shooting or murdering people, and then they’ve murdered more people."

Bullock added to the station that it wasn't the first time Travis County judges and magistrates have lowered the bond for an individual accused of murder or sexual assault: “This is not exclusive to just one judge. This has happened across multiple different courts. We’ve had some where they may not reoffend, but then we’ve had others who do reoffend — people [who] get out on bond, and they murder someone else when they’re already accused of a violent crime."

Murder victim's family fears for safety

The murder victim's aunt told KEYE in a separate story that her family members fear for their safety now that Morson has been released from jail.

“I’ve lost confidence in the system," she said. "I just don’t think I can confidently say they are doing everything in their power to keep people like this behind bars."

KEYE said Texas law stipulates that the state has 90 days to indict an individual for a felony after the date of the individual's arrest. The station added that if the district attorney’s office has not presented a case to a grand jury, and the suspect is being held in jail, the suspect must be released on a reduced and affordable bond.

You can view a video report here on Morson's reduced bail and the reaction of the murder victim's aunt.

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Massachusetts taxpayers now on hook for after-hours bail fees, thanks to new budget



Massachusetts has taken bail reform to a new level, forcing law-abiding taxpayers to shoulder the added cost of springing defendants from jail at night or on weekends, when courthouses are typically closed.

Since 2002, defendants in Massachusetts who want to be released from custody after hours have forked over a $40 fee to pay for a bail commissioner or magistrate to come to a police station to approve bail transactions or release the defendants on their own recognizance.

'This shows how out of touch these politicians have become, completely severed from reality.'

However, civil rights and social justice groups have since argued that such a system has a disproportional effect on certain racial groups, the Eagle Tribune claimed, and unfairly targets those of low income.

Those arguments seem to have won the day. Last week, far-left Gov. Maura Healey signed a budget that not only doubles the fee to $80 but that shifts that cost to the Trial Court — and by extension, to state taxpayers.

"The trial court shall be responsible for paying fees charged to take bail outside of regular working hours and any fee charged under this section for a bail taken outside of regular working hours shall be charged only to the trial court. Fee splitting arrangements are prohibited," the relevant section of the budget reads in part.

After fronting the $80 cost, bail commissioners or magistrates will then bill the Trial Court for reimbursement. Massachusetts lawmakers have already earmarked $4.8 million in the fiscal year 2025 budget to cover these costs.

Trial Court spokeswoman Jennifer Donahue believes that this arrangement is much more just for alleged offenders, telling the Eagle Tribune that it lifts the "financial burden from the individuals who can least afford it."

Donahue also noted that the change will likely encourage remote arraignments, further alleviating the inconveniences suffered by the accused. Remote hearings "shorten the time that individuals are held in custody, especially in rural areas, where traveling to the custodial facility could require an hour or more of travel," she claimed.

MassFiscal spokesman Paul Craney disagrees, noting that the system is already overrun and that the $4.8 million allocated for the new policy could be better spent elsewhere. "The state budget has become so bloated, and lawmakers are abusing the taxpayers to such a degree, that now Statehouse politicians think it’s ok to have taxpayers fund bail," Craney told Blaze News.

"This shows how out of touch these politicians have become, completely severed from reality."

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Kamala Harris Still Raising Money for ‘Freedom Fund’ That Busts Murderers and Rapists Out of Jail

Vice President Kamala Harris is actively raising funds for a bail fund that busts violent criminals from jail as her nascent presidential campaign signals her candidacy will lean heavily on her roots as a tough-on-crime former prosecutor.

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Cashless Bail Strikes Again: Suspect in Violent DC Anti-Semitic Attack Was Released After Fighting With Capitol Police

A Jewish man was targeted and attacked in Washington, D.C., by a suspect who less than a week earlier was released on cashless bail one day after fighting with Capitol Police, court and police documents show.

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Yet Another Biden Judicial Pick Has Ties to a Left-Wing, Anti-Cop Group

At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) introduced Biden judicial nominee Brian Murphy as a "staunch and committed advocate" for fairness in the criminal justice system. Murphy's advocacy includes work for a legal group that urges judges to base prison sentences on "structural racism" and backed a bail fund that freed a rapist who committed another rape weeks after his release from jail.

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Jamaal Bowman Endorsed a Gen Z Group Calling To End Cash Bail, While Results of the Policy Plague His District

Two months ago, blood and human flesh were found in the pipes and toilets of a Long Island home, the inhabitants of which were arrested and charged with evidence tampering after the dismembered body parts of two Yonkers, N.Y., residents were discovered in a nearby park. Within a week, the suspects were back on the […]

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