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From a holiday to Uganda, the Democratic New York City Mayor candidate Zoharan Mamdani dodged the questions of reporters on Wednesday morning, killing four about a collective shooting, including 36 -year -old NYPD officer Didarul Islam.
Mamdani, a socialist who has previously asked the police to save and met the officer’s family on Wednesday morning to dissolve a special unit that responded to a large -scale firing, but avoided questions from reporters after the meeting. The candidate spent an hour with the family of Islam, according to The New York Post,
He was photographed to embrace one of the family members of the deceased officer.
Flashback: Zoharan Mamdani promised to ‘disband’ a major police unit handling large -scale firing
Democratic Socialist candidate Zoharan Mamdani, who won the Democratic Primary for the Mayor of New York City, speaks in a support program on July 15, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Plot/Getty Images)
On Monday evening, a lonely gunman, which was later identified as Shane Tamura, went into a Midtown Manhattan office building and set fire to four people before the gun.
Four people killed in shooting were identified as Islam, Blackstone’s executive Wesley Leptar, security guards Aland Eye and Julia Hymen, who were an associate of Rudin Management.
While living in Uganda, Mamdani responded to the shooting said, “I am heartbroken to learn about the horrific shooting in Midtown, and I am catching the victims, their families and NYPD officer in my views.”
NYC Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani throws a grand wedding bash in Uganda
The ambulance, carrying the body of Didarul Islam, excluded the New York-PressBiterian/Well Cornell Medical Hospital in New York on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 during a dignified transfer of an officer killed, who was shot dead by a gunman on Monday evening. (AP Photo/Angelina Catsnis)
After shooting, Mamdani is renewed to a recent focus to a pledge to eliminate the NYPD’s strategic response group, which is a major police department responsible for riots, civil disorders and firing.
In December, Mammadani claimed that NYPD had deployed SRG in “Horse + Arrest Strikeing @Teamsters”.
Mammadani promised, “As the mayor, I will dissolve SRG, in which taxpayers spend millions in trial settlements + cruel countless new Yorkers exercised their first amendments.”
Mamdani’s past ‘Deitted the Police’ Stons Regharfes Deadly Manhattan after shooting
A candidate for the Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, in New York City on April 1, 2025, is campaigning outside a metro station and speaks during a news conference. (Reuters/Brandon McDermid)
Mamdani is holding a news conference about shooting on Wednesday afternoon.
