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Michael Goodwin: Mayor Mamdani offers ‘sloppy’ response to NYPD officers attacked with snowballs
For better and worse, the tenure of any new major public official is often defined by events in the first 100 days of the term.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is certainly no exception, with his awful beginning at City Hall confirmed again Tuesday. His latest big time blunder was his expression of icy indifference to police officers being attacked by snowballs in Manhattan.
Called to break up a large snowball fight in Washington Square Park on Monday afternoon, a group of uniformed officers quickly became the targets.
The cops were surrounded, taunted and then the ice and snow came flying at them. Some officers were struck in the head and face and required medical attention.
The mayor’s response was as cold as the blizzard.
“I’ve seen the videos of kids throwing snowballs at NYPD officers in Washington Square Park,” he later said on X. “Officers, like all city workers, have been out in a historic blizzard, keeping New Yorkers safe and cars moving. Treat them with respect.”
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Strong memo to follow, maybe, but probably not ever.
A core problem with the 34-year-old rookie’s reaction is that his language is as sloppy as his thinking. Cops are not “like all city workers.”
Their unique training, authority and responsibility is why concerned New Yorkers called 911 to report the dangerous scene unfolding in the park.
They didn’t call for score-keeping clerks to come and observe the mayhem, they wanted cops to come and shut it down and restore peace and order.
And so armed and........