'This is disgraceful': Mamdani raked over the coals for attack on NYPD



New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced sharp criticism Tuesday from lawmakers and police unions after a chaotic snowball fight in Manhattan's Washington Square Park turned into an attack on NYPD, with agitators pelting officers with snow and ice during a major blizzard.

The incident unfolded Monday afternoon as hundreds gathered for what began as a playful snowball fight amid heavy snowfall. Police responding to reports of disorder were targeted, forcing officers to retreat into their vehicles. Videos showed individuals hurling large chunks of snow at close range, including one dumping ice on an officer's head.

'Back the blue and hold those who disrespect them accountable.'

No arrests have been reported, but NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the behavior "disgraceful" and "criminal" in a statement on X.

"Our detectives are investigating this matter," she said.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and ex-Mayor Eric Adams, both Democrats, quickly blamed Mamdani's history of anti-police rhetoric for fostering an environment of disrespect toward law enforcement.

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"This is disgraceful. But with a mayor who has a history of calling the police 'racist, evil, wicked and corrupt,' he set the tone," Cuomo posted on X. "Words have consequences. We are seeing that in the growing disrespect for law enforcement — just as we've seen it in the rise in antisemitism. Real leaders understand that. This mayor does not."

Adams echoed the sentiment, saying the attack should outrage all New Yorkers.

"Watching officers get pelted with snow while they are out in brutal weather protecting this city should make every New Yorker furious. It is disgusting behavior," he said. "And the politicians who constantly bash the police and refuse to have their backs are setting a terrible example. Leadership matters. Tone matters."

U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from Staten Island, urged Mamdani and other officials to condemn the actions.

"This is disgraceful. @NYCMayor and every elected official in our city should denounce this juvenile attack on our NYPD," she posted on X. "Back the blue and hold those who disrespect them accountable."

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Another Republican congresswoman from New York, Claudia Tenney, directly attributed the incident to the mayor's anti-cop stance: "You can thank Mamdani's anti-police rhetoric for this."

Police unions demanded arrests and accountability. The Police Benevolent Association called the attack "unacceptable and outrageous," urging city leaders to condemn it and charge those involved with assault on a police officer.

Scott Munro, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association, described it as a "deliberate, outrageous, and dangerous attack." He called on Mamdani and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to ensure prosecutions, saying: "No free pass. No get out of jail free card."

Mamdani's office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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'Jim Snow 2.0': Critics blast Mamdani’s $19 snow jobs after $30 wage pledge



New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani built part of his campaign around a bold promise: a $30 minimum wage by 2030.

His plan called for phased increases: $20 per hour in 2027, $23.50 in 2028, $27 in 2029, and $30 in 2030. After that, wages would automatically adjust each year based on cost of living or productivity growth.

'You just can’t make this stuff up.'

As of January 1, 2026, New York City’s minimum wage is $17 per hour under state law.

But as a major winter storm approached the city this month, the Department of Sanitation activated an emergency snow-shoveling program paying $19.14 per hour. Overtime is set at $28.71 after 40 hours.

The temporary workers are tasked with clearing snow and ice from bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and step streets.

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The pay rate quickly drew criticism online. Several users on X pointed to the gap between the mayor’s long-term wage proposal and the city’s current emergency pay scale.

Conservative commentator and former ESPN anchor Sage Steele weighed in: “Let me get this straight: Zohran Mamdani campaigned (ignorantly) on raising NYC’s min wage to $30/hour, but is now begging residents to shovel snow for $19/hour??”

Steele, like others, also focused on the documentation requirements tied to the job, contrasting them with New York’s voting rules, which generally do not require voters to present photo identification.

“This ... from someone who believes requiring ONE form of ID to vote is racist?? You just can’t make this stuff up,” she continued.

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Mamdani has defended the employment documentation rules, stating that federal I-9 verification laws require all employers, including municipal governments, to confirm identity and work authorization before issuing pay.

A few critics labeled the rules “Jim Snow 2.0,” framing the documentation requirement as an unnecessary barrier.

Mamdani's office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Mamdani threatens massive property tax hike if Albany blocks wealth tax plan



New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is laying out two stark options to close the city’s fiscal year 2027 budget gap: raise taxes on high earners and corporations or increase property taxes.

During his preliminary budget presentation, Mamdani framed the first option as “the most sustainable and the fairest path,” calling for “ending the drain on our city and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations.”

'There is no third option of failing to balance the budget'

But he warned that this path depends on cooperation from Albany and Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.

“If we do not go down the first path,” Mamdani said, “the city will be forced down a second, more harmful path. … We would have to raise property taxes.”

The mayor acknowledged that New York City’s property tax system is “broken,” but emphasized that it is currently the only tax that the city has the authority to raise on its own.

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“What I am showcasing to New Yorkers is that there is one tax the city can raise,” he said. “It is a broken property tax system. We do not want to do so. … We want to work with Albany to ensure that we resolve this fiscal crisis by addressing the structural roots of it.”

Mamdani described a property tax increase as a “last resort,” stressing that the city is legally required to balance its budget — a mandate that dates back to the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, when New York City was pushed to the brink of bankruptcy.

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“There is no third option of failing to balance the budget,” he said.

“This is something that we do not want to do,” Mamdani said, “and this is something that we are going to utilize every single option to ensure does not come to pass.”

If Albany does not approve higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations, Mamdani said the city could be forced to raise property taxes by a staggering 9.5%.

Hochul is opposed to raising property taxes.

"I'm not supportive of a property tax increase," she said at a press conference in Manhattan this week. "I don't know that that's necessary, but let's find out what is really necessary to close that gap."

The message is clear: If the state doesn’t act, homeowners and commercial property owners could pay the price.

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‘Political theater’: Mamdani defends knife-wielding suspect who charged at police



In Queens, New York, Jabez Chakraborty was shot by law enforcement following a call from his family involving a mental and emotional distress crisis.

Bodycam footage from officers shows an immediate act of aggression after they enter the home on January 26 as Chakraborty charges officers with a large kitchen knife.

'I’m grateful to the first responders who put themselves on the line each day to keep our communities safe.'

New York Police Department Officer Tyree White orders Chakraborty to “put the knife down” several times, video shows. Chakraborty, 22, does not comply.

White then shoots Chakraborty, who sustained serious injuries but survived. Police said they recovered the knife at the scene.

The family later claimed they had asked for an ambulance, not police.

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However bodycam footage from another video shows a different account. In that video, a woman clearly says, “Yes,” when officers ask if she called them. She then opens the door and invites the officers inside. Officers again ask if they can enter the home, and she responds, “Yes,” confirming twice that she intentionally requested law enforcement assistance.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) initially praised first responders in a social media post.

“I’m grateful to the first responders who put themselves on the line each day to keep our communities safe,” the mayor said on X.

He later visited Chakraborty and his family in the hospital before shifting the tone of his public messaging.

"Jabez needs mental health treatment, not criminal prosecution by a district attorney," Mamdani said.

“No family should have to endure this kind of pain," he added.

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Critics say Mamdani is “playing a dangerous game of political theater,” downplaying the danger of the incident and framing Chakraborty as blameless because of his mental health.

No criminal charges appear to have been filed in connection with this case. Blaze News has reached out to the NYPD to inquire about Officer White's status.

Mamdani has since said he is working on a plan to accelerate the creation of a Department of Community Safety, which would co-respond to 911 calls alongside law enforcement.

“What these policy options include are various co-response models involving teams of behavioral health specialists, peer experts, and of course police so that they can intervene if the need arises,” Mamdani said.

Critics have been quick to point out that creating the Department of Community Safety would be unaffordable as New York City is already under a $12 billion budget deficit.

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Socialist Mamdani’s tax assault on NYC’s rich begins — claims Adams forced his hand with fiscal crisis



New York City's newly inaugurated mayor, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, revealed plans to increase taxes on "the richest New Yorkers" less than one month into his term, blaming former Mayor Eric Adams (D) for a budget shortfall.

On Thursday, Mamdani held a press conference to detail the "Adams Budget Crisis," claiming that the former mayor "misled and misinformed" New Yorkers about the "true state" of the city's finances.

'And here's the part socialists hate saying out loud: "Free" is a lie.'

"I will be blunt: New York City is facing a serious fiscal crisis. There is a massive fiscal deficit in our city's budget to the tune of at least $12 billion. We did not arrive at this place by accident. This crisis has a name and a chief architect," Mamdani said.

"This is the Adams Budget Crisis."

He accused Adams of handing the new administration "a poisoned chalice" by "systematically" under-budgeting necessary services, including rental assistance, shelter, and special education.

"Knowing his time in office was likely coming to an end, Mayor Adams chose political self-preservation over fiscal responsibility. This is not just bad governance. It is negligence," Mamdani remarked.

"The Adams administration dramatically and intentionally understated the problem."

Mamdani vowed to balance the budget over two fiscal years by implementing "bold solutions," including "recalibrating the broken fiscal relationship between the state and the city." He argued that New York City contributes 54.5% of the state's revenue but receives only 40.5% of its operating expenditures.

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"Working people did not cause this crisis, and they cannot be made the victims of its solution," Mamdani stated.

"The time has come to tax the richest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations," he declared.

Mamdani stated that he could "build a stronger city for everyone" if New York's top 1% earners paid an additional 2% in income taxes, while claiming that the increase was not significant enough to drive wealthy individuals to leave the state.

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Adams fired back at Mamdani in several posts on X, denying that he left a deficit in the city's budget.

"Facts have a way of getting in the way when slogans replace math and blame replaces leadership," Adams wrote. "I didn't leave a 'budget hole.' I left over $8 BILLION in reserves. Only someone who can't read a balance sheet would call that a crisis."

"And here's the part socialists hate saying out loud: 'Free' is a lie. Every so-called free program comes with a price tag, and someone always pays for it," he added.

Adams argued that Mamdani's real motive behind his press conference was to find a way to pay for the "laundry list of 'free' giveaways" he promised New Yorkers "to buy votes."

"Now that the math doesn't work, instead of owning the fact that he misled New Yorkers, he's blaming me," Adams said. "This is the same Mamdani who spent years attacking me for not spending enough during the migrant crisis. The only reason those reserves exist is because I ignored him and his socialist comrades who demanded we blow billions more with no guardrails."

Adams mocked Mamdani in a third post on X, writing, "When you promise 'free' everything on Sunday, boldly declare that millionaires and billionaires shouldn't exist on Monday, and by Tuesday you're scrambling to fund your giveaways with the very people you wanted gone just yesterday."

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Mamdani tells 'The View' hosts Renee Good was 'murdered' by ICE: 'Look at that video'



New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids strike fear into the immigrant population.

The newly inaugurated leader was given the celebrity treatment during a recent interview on "The View," where the program's left-wing hosts heralded him as a possible savior for not only NYC, but the entire United States.

'We are being asked to not believe our own eyes.'

Looking for Mamdani's direction on ICE raids, host Sunny Hostin (real name Asunción Cummings Hostin) asked the mayor if he thinks the federal government will "target New York" or him as well.

Mamdani started by reiterating his stance that Renee Good — the woman who was shot and killed by the ICE agent she was driving into — was actually murdered.

"People ask me, why did I say the word 'murder'? I ask them to look at that video and tell me what they would call it. We are being asked to not believe our own eyes," he argued.

Instead, Mamdani proposed, "It's time to be truthful with people."

This led to one of several instances in which the Ugandan-born politician claimed he stood his ground on his principles when he met with President Donald Trump in November.

"I've said this directly to the president: that these ICE raids, they are cruel. They are inhumane. They do nothing to deliver that public safety."

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The 34-year-old then pivoted to his city, where he said such raids strike fear into his city's immigrant population. He noted that 26 Federal Plaza, the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building that has a federal immigration court, was once an inspirational location that was associated with "the American dream."

"Now it's the sign of the American nightmare," Mamdani decreed. "It's where people go there for what should be a routine immigration check-in, [and] they don't know if they're going to get detained or deported."

The New York location is where many illegal immigrants are given their final deportation orders and are routinely detained by immigration enforcement outside the courtroom.

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Mamdani was pressed by Hostin about what he would do to stop ICE raids in NYC. The mayor said he would use "every tool" at the city's disposal to "ensure that what we're seeing elsewhere is not what we see in this city."

Sanctuary cities "keep New Yorkers safe," Mamdani said, specifically referring to people he described as committing only the crime of "being in New York City."

Mamdani was able to sidestep responding to host Joy Behar's remarks that legal battles against ICE raids have been unsuccessful in Minnesota, but only because another host brought up ICE agents wearing masks during operations. This gave the mayor a chance to discuss what he believes is another element of "fear" coming from the federal government.

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3 shadow radicals in Mamdani’s inner circle: Plotting to seize property, abolish police, and blame capitalists for ‘terror’



The Democratic Socialists of America may have Democrat in their name and operate as part of the Democratic Party, but they hate the team they play on.

DSA members see the Democratic Party as a cuckoo sees other birds: a means of achieving an end. Just as a cuckoo mother lays her eggs in other species’ nests so that her offspring will be fed and nurtured until her chicks are strong enough to kill the hosts, so the DSA has a parasitic relationship with the Democratic Party.

A video from the watchdog organization Canary Mission describes it like this: “DSA candidates run as Democrats in safe blue districts. They slip through low turnout primaries, and once inside, they use the Democratic label as camouflage while advancing an extremist anti-American agenda far beyond the party's mainstream. ... Once in office, DSA candidates take orders from DSA’s internal enforcers and working groups. City halls and state houses start running as socialist machines controlled by the organization, not the Democratic Party and certainly not voters.”

This kind of hostile takeover is happening right now in New York City, where Muslim democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is now the mayor.

On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz exposes three key figures inside the Mamdani administration who are currently working to ensure that the rotten fate of the Big Apple spreads like a cancer across the nation.

Mamdani’s recent appointment of NYC tenant rights activist Cea Weaver as the director of NYC’s Office to Protect Tenants is evidence that a total socialist takeover isn’t fear-driven speculation from the right wing, but the certified plan.

A resurfaced clip from a 2021 DSA event that’s recently gone viral captures Weaver discussing a push for shifts in housing policy: “I think the reality is that for centuries we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good, and ... in transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.”

“That is, in essence, Zohran Mamdani walking down the street and seizing private property, implementing racially biased, racially discriminatory policies that prevent white people specifically from having the same relationship with property (also known as ownership of property) that they have had in the past,” Liz translates.

“[Cea Weaver] will use her position of power to destroy private property, to take it away, despite the fact that her mom, by the way ... owns a $1.6 million house in Tennessee,” she laughs.

But Weaver is just the tip of the iceberg. “[Mamdani] has saturated New York City with DSA members — DSA members who want to orient themselves towards insurrection, who want to overthrow the empire, who believe that you’re not just pushing socialism, you are tearing down a nation built on capitalism,” Liz continues.

One of those people is Alex Vitale — a key adviser on Mamdani’s transition team, specifically for the Committee on Community Safety. Vitale, a Brooklyn College sociology professor and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project, is the author of a book titled “The End of Policing,” in which he argues for the “abolition of police.”

“He has pushed to abolish the New York City Police Department’s gang database. ... And he’s very open about this,” Liz says.

Another deeply concerning member of Mamdani’s administration is a man named Gustavo Gordillo — the co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. He was a key architect of the chapter’s electoral strategy that helped propel Mamdani’s successful 2025 mayoral campaign, and he now serves on the transition team’s economic development and workforce development committee, advising on policies tied to Mamdani’s economic agenda.

Liz plays a video clip of Gordillo from a 2025 DSA rally spewing the following anti-American vitriol: “They make figures like Hamas and, quote, unquote, terrorists into effective enemies. I think all of us in the working-class movement need to spend more time villainizing too. There are actual terrorists in the United States, but they are not Mahmoud Khalil, nor are they the students and working-class people protesting Israel’s genocide. And it is definitely not the Palestinian people. The terror comes from the capitalists and their pawns. ... The terror comes from their fascist government and their ICE squads.”

These are the people in the Mamdani administration,” Liz says.

“Remember: Sometimes the most detrimental impacts are from policies that are imposed on us by people whose names we’re not even familiar with.”

To hear more of Liz’s analysis, watch the video above.

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‘Seize private property’: NYC’s socialist mayor taps communist sympathizer to lead office to ‘Protect Tenants’



New York City's newly sworn-in Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already started taking steps to advance his radical agenda by selecting an anti-private-property extremist to lead the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants.

Mamdani announced on January 2 that Cea Weaver would join his team, noting that she had previously led Housing Justice for All, a coalition of groups representing tenants and homeless New Yorkers, and its sister organization, the New York State Tenant Bloc.

'Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.'

Mamdani credited Weaver for helping to pass "landmark legislation that closed loopholes landlords used to raise rents and push apartments out of stabilization."

"Now she'll work with us to hold landlords accountable and ensure New York City tenants are living in safe, clean homes," Mamdani wrote.

Following Weaver's appointment, an undated video resurfaced on social media of the activist discussing her goal to eliminate private property ownership.

"I think the reality is, is that for centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good," Weaver stated in the video. "And transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families but some [people of color] families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have."

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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon reacted to the resurfaced video of Weaver.

“I don’t think so,” Dhillon wrote. “We have federal housing laws that trump any collective Marxist fantasies.”

Weaver once urged Americans to "elect more communists" in a 2017 post on her now-deactivated X account, the New York Post reported.

She also called to "seize private property."

"Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy," Weaver reportedly wrote in 2019.

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Weaver has previously expressed support for freezing rent, writing in a January 2025 post on Bluesky, "There are lots of things the mayor CANT [sic] do on housing, but freezing the rent is one of the only things they can unilaterally do for 2.4 million New York renters. Policy plans are great, so is a rent freeze."

According to New York City's Tenant Protection Cabinet, 65% of the city's residents are renters.

Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul's office did not respond to a request for comment.

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'Money hungry Jews': Mamdani appointee abruptly quits after her anti-Semitic online posts resurface



An appointee for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, abruptly resigned after the Anti-Defamation League of New York and New Jersey exposed her past anti-Semitic social media posts.

On Wednesday, Mamdani announced that Catherine Almonte Da Costa would be his director of appointments.

'As this has become a distraction from the work at hand, I have offered my resignation.'

The ADL responded to the nomination by highlighting Da Costa's numerous anti-Jewish online comments.

"Her social media footprint includes posts from more than a decade ago that echo classic antisemitic tropes and otherwise demean Jewish people. ... We appreciate Da Costa has relationships with members of the Jewish community, but her posts require immediate explanation — not just from Ms. Da Costa, but also from the Mayor-Elect," the ADL wrote.

The ADL continued, "Vetting the appointment of city leaders will be Ms. Da Costa's responsibility and the Jewish community deserves to know: 1) Were these comments previously identified by the Mayor-elect's team? If so, why were they excused? 2) What will be the policy of the new Administration if comments like these are discovered during the vetting process?"

The ADL's post included screenshots of three X posts from Da Costa's account, which has since been removed.

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"Money hungry Jews smh," Da Costa apparently wrote in January 2011 on then-Twitter, presumably using an abbreviation for "shaking my head," an expression of disapproval.

"Woo! Promoted to the upstairs office today! Working alongside these rich Jewish peeps," she apparently wrote later that year.

"Far Rockaway train is the Jew train," a third post read from June 2012.

In 2020, Da Costa posted anti-cop sentiments, calling for the defunding of the New York Police Department by $1 billion in the upcoming fiscal year to "get cops out of our schools & subways," the New York Post reported.

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L to R: Zohran Mamdani, Jahmila Edwards, Catherine Almonte Da Costa. Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images

Da Costa announced her resignation on Thursday, following the resurfaced posts.

"I spoke with the mayor-elect this afternoon, apologized, and expressed my deep regret for my past statements," Da Costa said. "These statements are not indicative of who I am. As the mother of Jewish children, I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused. As this has become a distraction from the work at hand, I have offered my resignation."

In a separate statement, she contended that her "tweets from well over a decade ago ... do not in any way, shape, or form reflect who I am or my views and beliefs today."

Mamdani called Da Costa's past remarks "unacceptable," adding that the posts "absolutely do not represent him or the values of his administration."

"Catherine expressed her deep remorse over her past statements and tendered her resignation, and I accepted," he added.

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