When duty called on this scorching Monday in Midtown, New York’s Finest rushed to the scene. A crazed shooter had stormed 345 Park Avenue and shot Didarul Islam, a member of a paid NYPD security detail, six times in the back. As the shooter hunted for more victims, members of the NYPD’s most elite units flooded the building to end the threat. Climbing 44 flights of stairs in full gear, these heroes secured floor after floor, ultimately finding the remains of the shooter in the offices of Rudin Management. Officers ushered sheltering civilians from the building, lending a semblance of order and sanity to the men and women whose lives were just shattered by the cruel depredations of a selfish coward. Ultimately, Officer Islam and three other victims would succumb to their wounds; Didarul’s father suffered a stroke when informed of the death of his son.
Today, as New Yorkers pick up the wreckage and resume their lives, the voice of one prominent resident is missing from the scene. Zohran Mamdani, who talked tall on the campaign trail about not visiting foreign countries, remains 7,000 miles away in his home country of Uganda (this was not, after all, a “foreign” visit). With a 20-member security team guarding his family’s two acres of land, Mamdani – who supports abolishing private land ownership – is currently partying with the Ugandan elite, including their president, Yoweri Museveni. At the moment of publication, it does not appear Mamdani has any plans to return in support of his fellow New Yorkers; he expressed his sympathies to the victims via tweet and email.
Mamdani’s antipathy toward the police is well established, and his tweets tell the tale of his vitriol for New York’s Finest. At the height of the BLM riots in June 2020, as crazed hordes burnt and plundered America’s cities, Zohran called for the destruction of the thin blue line that stood between Americans and chaos: “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” he said. “What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.” This tweet was not a one-off, but an honest expression of his deeply held beliefs. Responding to another user who said, “I JUST SAW A COP CRYING IN HIS CAR LMAOOOO,” Mamdani added that “nature is healing.” Just this December, he called to eliminate the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, a critical unit that responded to yesterday’s Midtown shooting.
“As Mayor,” Mamdani dictated, “I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements and brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment [sic] rights.” In other words, Mamdani’s vitriolic hatred for the NYPD is as strong now as it was five years ago, and he is campaigning on the platform of its destruction. Along with the Emergency Service Unit, the SRG helped secure the active scene and rescue 44 floors of innocent men and women who were sheltering from danger. Their members are highly trained, often come from military backgrounds, and boast decades of experience risking their lives so that New Yorkers can live safe and free. As the SRG stormed the skyscraper to eliminate the shooter, Mamdani finalized a platform to eliminate the SRG.
The events of the last 72 hours are a moral indictment of Zohran Mamdani, and he is the star witness in his own prosecution. New Yorkers are lucky that, while he may be a hypocrite, Mamdani does not conceal his agenda. Instead of cracking down on violent felons and restoring cash bail, he wants to defund the very units that rescued the innocent victims in Midtown. He refuses to return from Uganda, preferring lavish parties in his home country to comforting the heartbroken in the City he is running to lead. And, frankly, Zohran is welcome to stay there. As our Club explained in a previous statement, foreign enemies of the United States like Zohran Mamdani ought to be denaturalized and deported. And as we thoroughly documented in our letter to Congress, the Fourteenth Amendment precludes America’s enemies from holding public office. Disqualifying this Marxist lowlife from the ballot is a common-sense measure that ought to unify our City.
The New York Young Republican Club sends our sincere condolences to the victims of Monday’s senseless shooting. We hold the deceased and injured in our prayers, along with their families, and pray for a day when our City knows no more sorrow. God Bless the City of New York.