The shooting that killed a police office (plus three other people) is being presented as a major challenge for the guy who is not Mayor. It underlines why the NYPD operates as a law unto itself: political candidates cannot criticize it without media punishment.
He once mocked a crying cop. Now he may run the nation’s largest police force.
Zohran Mamdani will face a gauntlet of political pitfalls should he take over the nation’s largest police department.