Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s pro-communist darling and now the Democrats’ pick for mayor, is hoping you forgot what he actually believes. After Monday’s bloody Manhattan mass shooting that left four innocent New Yorkers dead—including Officer Didarul Islam—the self-proclaimed champion of “defund and dismantle” has suddenly decided, with a straight face, that he’s never been about defunding the police.
In a hastily called press conference at a union hall that just happens to endorse him (how convenient), Mamdani blamed everyone but himself. Andrew Cuomo? Evil political opportunist. Reporters? Focusing on tweets instead of “his vision.” Normal New Yorkers who remember him calling the NYPD “wicked,” “corrupt,” and “a public health hazard”? Clearly, they just don’t understand nuance.
From “Defund It, Dismantle It” to “I’m Shocked You Misunderstood Me”
Here’s the problem for Mr. Zohran “Communism Will Fix It” Mamdani: the internet is forever. It wasn’t that long ago—2020, to be precise—that Mamdani was gleefully posting things like, “Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence,” referring to the police force that now has to pick up the pieces from his utopian mess.
He wasn’t subtle about it either. He ranted about how police “threaten the physical safety” of their critics, claimed prosecutors were “public health hazards,” and declared the whole justice system an “unreformable disaster.” And when protesters made a cop cry in a car? Mamdani’s tweet? “Nature is healing.” That’s the sort of empathy you can expect from someone who thinks Karl Marx is a role model.
But fast-forward to today and suddenly, the man who treated cops like enemies of the state now wants to be the voice of “balance.” Why? Because the city he hopes to lead just experienced a nightmare that exposed the cost of his ideology—and voters are paying attention.
A Reality Check Called Midtown
Monday’s carnage was brutal: a gunman stormed an office building looking for an NFL executive, opened fire on the wrong floor, and left four people dead, including a 36-year-old NYPD officer. And who responded to stop the bloodshed? The same “wicked, corrupt” NYPD Mamdani has spent years trying to dismantle.
The Strategic Response Group—the elite NYPD unit Mamdani still insists should be disbanded—was on the front line. Without them, the death toll could have been even higher. That’s reality. And no amount of revisionist campaign spin changes that.
The Press Conference Pivot
With polls showing him crushing his opponents, Mamdani couldn’t risk looking like a radical when every normal voter in New York is thinking about safety. So at his press conference, the once proud defunder tried a little political yoga.
“I am not running to defund the police,” he said, carefully trying to keep a straight face. He even claimed that meeting Officer Islam’s grieving father moved him so deeply that he “held him in my arms.” Touching? Sure. But you know what else would have been touching? Supporting that officer before he died.
Instead, Mamdani spent the last few years posting rants about how cops are the real danger. Now that the spotlight is on him, he’s shocked—shocked—that anyone remembers.
Cuomo, Tweets, and the Great Blame Game
When pressed (over and over) about those old tweets, Mamdani didn’t apologize. He didn’t retract. He just pivoted.
“If he [Cuomo] wants to litigate a race based upon tweets that are clearly out of step with the vision that I have,” Mamdani said, “he is free to do so.”
Translation: “Please ignore everything I’ve ever said. Focus on my shiny new campaign slogan instead.”
This is the classic progressive escape hatch. Tweets from 2020? Oh, those were written during “a moment of frustration.” The entire anti-police agenda? Just a phase, like bad hair in high school. How dare anyone expect consistency from a grown man running for the largest city in America?
The Double Life of Zohran Mamdani
Here’s the truth: Zohran Mamdani still plans to gut NYPD’s Strategic Response Group. He still wants to replace police response with social workers in “select” cases. He still believes the criminal justice system is the problem, not the criminals.
But now he’s trying to disguise it because reality hit him like a subway train. New Yorkers do not want a mayor who despises their police force, mocks officers’ pain, and believes “abolish” is a governing philosophy.
Unfortunately for him, he’s already on the record.
The Final Spin
This is the blueprint: create chaos with soft-on-crime policies, bash police to win points with activists, then, when innocent blood is spilled, hold a press conference and pretend you never meant it. It’s as predictable as a CNN panel blaming the weather on Donald Trump.
Mamdani can’t erase his tweets. He can’t un-say “defund it, dismantle it.” And he can’t hide the fact that he represents a radical fringe that sees police officers as the enemy—until they need them for a photo op.
New Yorkers deserve better than a communist candidate who only loves the NYPD when the cameras are rolling.
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