New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being mocked after many say he was humiliated by being booed off the stage while attending one of the city’s biggest pro-police celebrations on Staten Island.
Mamdani attempted to address about 3,500 residents and families attending the New York Police Department’s 43rd Patrol Borough National Night Out Against Crime event on Tuesday. His remarks, however, lasted less than a minute as loud boos, jeers and chants of “get out of here” and “nobody wants you” drowned out his voice.
The mayor attempted to continue speaking for a short time, but the jeers drowned him out. After the boos continued, Mamdani thanked the crowd with his signature hand-over-his-heart gesture, waved and walked offstage smiling. As he exited, the crowd continued to berate him, with some yelling expletives. An organizer attempted to regain control of the event, but the crowd persisted, booing and shaking their fists at Mamdani.
“Mamdani tried to deliver a speech at a New York Police event in Manhattan but was VICIOUSLY booed and jeered off stage,” reacted conservative pundit Eric Daugherty on X. “He walked off in SHAME.”
MAMDANI WALKS BACK PLAN TO INCREASE NYPD HEADCOUNT FOLLOWING DSA PRESSURE
Political commentator Joey Mannarino wrote, “New York’s communist mayor Zohran Mamdani just got the reception he actually deserves. Booed, jeered, and screamed off the stage at an NYPD Night Out event in Staten Island in under a minute.”
“The same cops and working class New Yorkers this DSA radical and his soft on crime buddies spent years attacking, vilifying, and trying to defund just told him to get the f— out,” Mannarino continued, adding, “He stood there smiling like an idiot while the crowd chanted for him to leave. Staten Island sees right through him.”
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute President Sal Saverio reposted video of Mamdani being booed on X with the caption, “God Bless America and God Bless the people of Staten Island NY, unofficially known as Staten Italy! Proud to have been born there!!!”
Influencer David Freeman wrote, “MAMDANI SHOULD BE MOCKED.”
“Voters are starting to notice the gap between the campaign promises and the actual price tags,” he said. “The reception is getting noticeably colder.”
NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE URGES 9/11 ATTENDEES TO TURN AWAY FROM MAMDANI DURING CEREMONY
Mamdani has faced criticism over his relationship with police dating back to his mayoral campaign, which was dogged by questions about his past support for defunding the police. After his election, critics renewed those attacks when his budget included cuts to police funding and canceled plans to hire 5,000 new NYPD officers.
He also took criticism for his handling of an incident in February in Washington Square Park, dubbed “Snowballgate,” where a mob of roughly 100 people pelted NYPD officers with snowballs, leaving two officers injured.
Rather than condemning the assault, Mamdani appeared to downplay the violence, referring to the perpetrators as “kids” taking part in a snowball fight.
GROCER-TURNED-LAWMAKER SAYS MAMDANI’S GOVERNMENT-RUN STORES ‘MIGHT NOT EVEN LAST A YEAR’
SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER
Fox News Digital previously reported that local crime expert and Manhattan Institute fellow Rafael Mangual said, “Mamdani did not come out in support of the NYPD in that incident. Instead, he seemed to kind of brush it off and even refused to call for the prosecution of the perpetrators,” adding that the actions of the mob clearly qualified as an assault against police officers.
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s office and the NYPD for comment.