In December, Zohran Mamdani promised to dissolve a NYPD unit which manages mass shots

While the city of New York rolls from a fatal mass shooting in the city center of Manhattan who killed four, including a NYPD officer, the Democratic candidate for Mayor Zohran Mamdani attracts renewed attention to a recent commitment to eliminate a key police service responsible for riots, civil disorders and shootings.

Mamdani, who is currently in Uganda to celebrate his marriage, has already called to finance the police, but as a candidate for the town hall, he took a much more moderate tone concerning the police.

However, when he was already a candidate for the mayor, Mamdani joined X in December 2024 to “dissolve” the strategic response group of the New York Police Department (SRG).

The SRG is one of the NYPD special operations units, which, according to the official website of the Force, specializes in the response to disorders, the abolition of crime and control of crowds and “responds to city mobilizations, civil disorders and major events with highly qualified personnel and specialized equipment”.

Mamdani’s past “Funds the police position” resurfaces after the Dead Manhattan shooting

While the city of New York rolls from a fatal mass shooting in the center of Manhattan who killed four, the Democratic candidate at the town hall, Zohran Mamdani, draws attention for a recent commitment to eliminate a key police service responsible for riots, civil disorders and shots. (Jeenah Moon / Reuters; Mary Altaffer / AP Photo)

The website also indicates that SRG staff is “also deployed in areas requiring increased police presence due to the increase in crime or other conditions” and “mobilizes for fire, bank flights, disappeared, demonstrations or other important incidents”.

In December, Mamdani said that the NYPD had deployed the SRG to “harass + stop hitting @teamsters”.

Mamdani has promised: “As mayor, I will dissolve the SRG, which cost taxpayers to the millions of trials + countless New Yorks exercising their rights to the first amendment.”

In response to the shooting, Mamdani said: “I have a broken heart to learn the horrible shooting in Midtown and I hold the victims, their families and the NYPD officer in critical condition in my thoughts.”

The cops heroes and God saved lives after the shooter opened fire, says Eric Adams

The officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD) respond to the scene of a shooting at 345 Park Ave. In New York, the United States on Monday, July 28, 2025. An active shooter attacked the 345 Park Ave. In Manhattan, the Tower housing Blackstone Inc. (Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He also noted that he was “grateful for all our first stakeholders on the ground”.

On Monday, a lonely shooter, later identified as Shane Tamura, entered an office building in Midtown Manhattan and opened fire, killing four people before turning the pistol on himself.

The four people killed during the shooting were identified as the NYPD officer Didarul Islam, the management of Blackstone Wesley Lepatner, the security guard Aland Etienne and Julia Hyman, associated with Rudin Management.

The motif of the shooting remains vague, but the shooter would have had a grievance with the NFL, blaming football sport for apparent problems with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a side effect of repeated heads.

The photo shows how employees barricaded during the shooting of New York

NYPD has condolences for the police didarul Islam (Getty Images)

In response to the tragedy, the mayor Eric Adams, who presents himself to his re-election as an independent, announced Tuesday that “as a mark of respect for the memory of the NYPD officer Didarul Islam who died in the exercise of his functions and the multiple victims of the mass shooting in the Midtown Manhattan at 345 Park Avenue, I ordered notice.”

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“The officer Didarul Islam died as he lived, a hero and protector from New York. We will never forget you,” wrote Adams in another article on X.

Fox News Digital contacted Mamdani’s campaign to comment but did not immediately receive an answer.