The family of the NYPD officer was visited by Mamdani a few days after the shooting of Manhattan

Back from vacation in Uganda, the Democratic candidate of the New York town hall, Zohran Mamdani, visited the family of the NYPD officer Didarul Islam on Wednesday.

Islam, a 36 -year -old policeman, was killed in a mass shooting in an office building in Midtown Manhattan on Monday. The shooter, later identified as Shane Tamura, killed Islam, the management of Blackstone Wesley Lepatner, the security guard Aland Etienne and Julia Hyman, associated with Rudin Management, before turning the weapon on himself.

Mamdani was on vacation for her wedding in Uganda at the time of filming. He returned Wednesday morning and went directly to the Islam family home.

The New York Post Photographed Mamdani walking in the family’s house with flowers. Although he did not answer journalists’ questions after the visit, he then declared at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon that the family had offered him breakfast and that they had spent almost an hour to visit.

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New York Town Hall candidate Zohran Mamdani brings flowers to the family of the Nypd officer Didarul Islam in the Bronx, New York, on July 30, 2025. The officer Diderul Didarul was shot in a mass shooting on Monday evening. (Matthew McDermott for New York Post)

Socialist who had previously called to finance the police and dissolve the special unit that answers mass fire, Mamdani avoided journalists’ questions after the meeting.

Addressing journalists later in the day, Mamdani explained: “I landed in New York this morning and I went directly to the home of the Islam officer, where I met members of his family, young and old who have their hearts broken by the loss of their son, their brother, their father, their husband, their friend.

“We spent almost an hour together, there were times that stayed with me,” he said.

“They welcomed me in their house. They refused to let me go until I have breakfast with them,” he said, adding, “they embody so much of what makes this city the one we love.”

The post also photographed him by hugging one of the members of the family of the officer who died when he left.

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The candidate for the town hall Zohran Mamdani embraces a man as he left the family’s house killed from the NYPD Didarul Islam in the Bronx, New York, on July 30, 2025. The officer Diier Didarul was killed and killed during a mass shoot on Monday evening. (Matthew McDermott for New York Post)

After the shooting, Mamdani draws renewed attention to a recent commitment to eliminate the NYPD strategic response group, a key police service responsible for riots, civil disorders and fire.

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

Mamdani is committed: “As mayor, I dissolve the SRG, which cost taxpayers to the millions of trials of trials + countless New Yorkers exercising their rights to the first amendment.”

During the press conference on Wednesday, however, Mamdani said: “To be very clear, because I was during this campaign. I am not finance the police. I do not run to finance the police.”

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New York town hall candidate Zohran Mamdani leaves the family’s family home from Nypd Didarul Islam in the Bronx, New York, on July 30, 2025. The officer Didarul Didarul was killed in a mass shooting on Monday evening. (Matthew McDermott for New York Post)

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In response to a question on a 2020 position mocking a police officer for having had a break in his car, said Mamdani, said that the post “was out of step with the way I only consider the police, the immense work they do in this city, but also the gravity with which we must deal with this work and the difficulties that come with this work.”

In response to the shooting, Mamdani said he echoed Governor Kathy Hochul, Dn.y., who has not yet approved, for a national prohibition of assault rifles.