Sensible New Yorkers didn’t need yet another reason to vote against Zohran Mamdani for mayor, but Monday’s horrific Midtown slaughter provided a clear illustration of why the radical Democrat must not win the keys to City Hall.
Mamdani is in Uganda celebrating his wedding, but his initial statement on X about the bloodbath on Park Avenue rings hollow given his past smears of the NYPD and repeated calls to “defund the police.”
“I’m heartbroken to learn of the horrific shooting in midtown and I am holding the victims, their families, and the NYPD officer in critical condition in my thoughts,” Mamdani posted on X late Monday.
“Grateful for all of our first responders on the ground.”
By the time of that statement, Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch already had visited the scene and identified the dead officer as Didarul Islam, 36, who was killed while providing off-duty lobby security for 345 Park Ave.
The mayor and the commissioner said he had emigrated from Bangladesh, had two children and was expecting a third with his pregnant wife.
Adams, in moving remarks, said the officer was “doing what he does best . . . saving lives. He was protecting New Yorkers.”
Nonetheless, it took Mamdani another six hours before he named Officer Islam and repeated the biographical details Adams and Tisch had revealed.
Shallow platitudes
In that second post, Mamdani added that when Islam “joined the police department, his mother asked him why he would pursue such a dangerous job. He told her it was to leave behind a legacy that his family could be proud of.”
How the shooting unfolded
- Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Ave. start coming in around 6:28 p.m.
- Shane Tamura, 27, is seen getting out of a black BMW between 51st and 52nd streets with an M4 rifle.
- He enters the lobby and turns right, where he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead.
- Tamura guns down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby, sprays more bullets and walks toward the elevator bank — where he shoots dead a security guard crouching at his desk.
- One more man reports being shot and injured in the lobby. He was in critical but stable condition.
- The gunman allows a woman to walk out of the elevators unharmed before heading up to the 33rd floor, where building owner Rudin Properties’ offices are located, “and begins to walk the floor, firing as he traveled.”
- One woman is shot and killed on that floor before Tamura shoots himself in the chest.
- It’s unclear how long the mayhem lasted. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch posted on X at 7:52 p.m.: “The scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”
“He has done that, and more,” the mayoral wannabe said, before concluding: “I pray for him, his family, and honor the legacy of service and sacrifice he leaves behind.”
Fair enough, but given his past attacks on the NYPD, and his immaturity, it remains impossible to imagine Mamdani providing leadership or reassurance to a stricken police force and a rattled city at a moment of distress.
The candidate is just 33 years old, and his burn-it-all-down attitude about long-established norms and traditions, especially his socialist, antisemitic and anti-police positions, make for a poor comparison next to the splendid example Adams and Tisch offered Monday.
Both are seasoned public servants whose experience and values made for a compelling lesson in crisis leadership.
The mayor, now 64, wore the NYPD uniform for 20 years, and is seeking re-election in the general election as an independent.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/opinion/michael-goodwinmamdanis-cop-hating-agenda-speaks-louder-than-his-hollow-words-after-horrific-nyc-shooting/
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