Memory Lane: Mamdani promised to "disband" key police unit that handles mass shootings

Picture the scene: New York City is still shaking after a psycho gunman, Shane Tamura, stormed a Midtown office building, unloading a hail of bullets that left four dead, including an NYPD cop, before shooting himself in the chest. Blood on the pavement, chaos in the streets, and now the city is staring down the barrel of a mayoral race where the Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani, is catching heat for some wild anti-cop promises that sound like they were cooked up in a thug's fever dream.

Mamdani, who is currently off in Uganda tying the knot while the city mourns, has been flapping his gums about gutting the NYPD's Strategic Response Group (SRG). This isn’t some desk-jockey unit, the SRG’s the heavy hitters, the ones who roll out when riots, shootings, or straight-up anarchy hit the streets. 

According to the NYPD's own site, these guys are "highly trained personnel" with "specialized equipment," tasked with handling "citywide mobilizations, civil disorders, and major events." They're the ones you call when the city's burning, or when crime spikes and you need boots on the ground to lock it down. They're also the crew that shows up for "shootings, bank robberies, missing persons, demonstrations, or other significant incidents." You know, the kind of stuff that just went down at 345 Park Ave, where Tamura turned a Monday into a slaughterhouse.

But Zohran Mamdani has a bone to pick. Back in December 2024, while already running for mayor, he took to X and swore he would "disband" the SRG. Why? He posted on X that they were out there to "harass + arrest striking @teamsters," and that they’ve "cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements + brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment rights." 

Yeah, that’s his pitch: torch a unit that is literally built to stop the kind of chaos we just saw, all because this communist has a vendetta against cops. This is the same guy who’s been screaming "defund the police" for years, though he's tried to dial it back to a whisper now that he's got his eyes on City Hall. 

Fast-forward to Monday's carnage. Tamura, an apparent psychi with a grudge against the NFL, something about CTE and too many hits to the head which can only be diagnosed post mortem, walks into the tower at 345 Park Ave, home to big companies like Blackstone Inc. and the NFL. He opens fire, dropping NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, Blackstone exec Wesley LePatner, security guard Aland Etienne, and Rudin Management associate Julia Hyman. 

Four lives senselessly ended, and the city’s left picking up the pieces. 

Mamdani, from halfway across the globe, chimes in with the standard politician's lament: "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." Oh, and suddenly he's "grateful for all of our first responders on the ground." This butt-munch will say anything for votes but when it comes to what he'll do if elected, New York will become the Wild, Wild East.

Real noble, Zohran, but maybe check your own playbook, you freaking promised to gut the unit those first responders rely on.

Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams, who's running for re-election as an independent and doesn't shy away from swinging back, isn't letting this slide. He's ordered all city flags to half-staff "as a mark of respect for the memory of NYPD Officer Didarul Islam who died in the line of duty and the multiple victims of the mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan at 345 Park Avenue yesterday." 

Adams didn’t mince words on X either: "Officer Didarul Islam died as he lived, a hero and protector of New York City. We will never forget you." That’s the kind of gut-punch clarity you get from a guy who's been in the trenches, not some ivory-tower type dreaming up ways to kneecap the NYPD.

So here’s the deal: NYC is bleeding, and Mamdani is out here playing revolutionary, vowing to dismantle the very units that keep the city from spiraling into a free-for-all. Does that sound like a guy ready to lead, or someone who’s gonna let the streets burn while he’s tweeting from a wedding in Uganda? 

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