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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has ripped his Democratic mayoral opponent Zohran Mamdani for attending the funeral of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam last week – but skipping services for other fallen officers killed during his time in the state Assembly – and never publicly acknowledging their deaths.
Adams, a former NYPD captain, suggested Mamdani’s presence at Islam’s funeral was politically motivated and inconsistent with his prior stance on policing – which included calls to defund the agency and slamming it as racist. Mamdani has since walked back those statements.
“We lost officers before he was running for mayor. Where was he? Did he feel those officers deserve to be lifted up as he lifted up now Officer Islam during the election? We need to ask, where was he?” Adams told reporters at City Hall on Monday, per the New York Post.
“You should lift up officers when you’re not running for mayor. He could have lifted them up when he was an assemblyman. He could have done it over the years when he was in Albany.”
MAMDANI’S PAST ‘DEFUND THE POLICE’ STANCE RESURFACES AFTER DEADLY MANHATTAN SHOOTING
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, left, has ripped his Democratic mayoral opponent Zohran Mamdani, right, for attending the funeral of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam last week – but skipping services for other fallen officers killed during his time in the state Assembly – and never publicly acknowledging their deaths. (Getty Images)
Mamdani, a socialist who has served in the New York State Assembly since January, did not attend the funerals of six of NYPD’s finest who died in the line of duty from 2022 through March of this year, Adams said.
“Not one time has [Mamdani] said something in response to a police officer who’s been shot or killed,” Adams said, pointing out the 2022 killing of officers Wilbert Mora, Jason Rivera. “We cannot find one tweet that he made, or one comment that he made when that…
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