I've written quite a bit about New York City's socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his "priorities."
In one such example over the summer, a man who was awaiting trial on the charge of murdering a laundromat employee with a meat cleaver who had more than two dozen prior arrests was found dead in his cell on Rikers Island.
Did Mamdani mourn the victim or the criminal? You've already guessed the answer:
I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss. We do not yet know the cause of death, but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction and its oversight partners will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. Our administration is fully committed to the critical work of creating better conditions in our city’s jail system and closing Rikers Island as quickly as possible.
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) August 25, 2026
There are no criminals — legal or otherwise — that socialists like Mamdani don't prioritize over law-abiding Americans.
That's what makes it so easy to see where this is headed:
JUST IN: Mayor Mamdani to disband NYPD’s 600-officer unit responsible for handling protests and crowd control.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) November 12, 2026
Gee, why would he do this?
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to unveil a plan for disbanding the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group as early as this week, according to three people with knowledge of the long-awaited announcement.
In dissolving the counterterrorism and protest-response unit, the democratic socialist mayor would fulfill a key 2025 campaign pledge with the aim of mollifying an increasingly restive base.
Mamdani’s plan is expected to involve nixing the SRG and potentially replacing it with a new civilian unit that would take the lead on responding to protests, said one of the people who spoke to POLITICO and, like others, was granted anonymity to discuss the announcement. Under the plan — which had not been finalized as of Thursday morning — the new civilian unit would be supported by NYPD officers, who would assemble nearby and could step in to conduct arrests if needed, said the person, noting that the civilian entity’s main goal would be deescalation.
I'm sure the social workers will be able to stop rioting!
Of course, "deescalating" any violent unrest isn't the plan and never will be from communists who only know escalation.
Everything we said was going to happen is going to happen.
— Finance Reb 🦈 (@OleMissRebel90) November 12, 2026
And then some, likely.
New York is going to get everything they voted for.
— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) November 12, 2026
https://t.co/6NBHKAjRKK
— Chesty (@ChestyPullerGst) November 12, 2026
He wants NYC to burn like we saw in Paris
— Jay 🕋☪️✈️ (@jay_kobbe) November 14, 2026
This won’t end well.
— AppPatriotgirl 🇺🇸 (@goneers) November 12, 2026
History tells us that anything socialist does not end well.
