We demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and use every power available to him to drive ICE out of New York City.
We further demand the mayor abolish the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG) and Community Response Team (CRT).
Yes, he grew and changed something you have been unable to do the last 3 years. But at least we can give him grace given he is still very young and new to the movement. The pace at which he’s developed is inspiring and you should probably try to learn from him rather than being patronizing like this. It’s truly unbecoming.
I find it funny how people invent hypothetical threats against Mamdani to justify keeping Jessica Tisch as NYPD Commissioner. “Maybe they threatened him behind the scenes!” “Maybe his life is at risk!” Based on what?
I’ve been brutalized by the NYPD multiple times and am suing them. Their former highest-ranking uniformed officer publicly threatened me with violence and arrest, while another top official tried to discredit my account of police ripping off my hijab by releasing footage taken after it happened.
None of that has stopped me from demanding justice for New Yorkers subjected to police violence or Palestinians subjected to the NYPD’s collaboration with Israeli occupation forces.
And if the NYPD is supposedly so dangerous that even the mayor can’t challenge its leadership, isn’t that an even stronger argument for confronting its power rather than accommodating it?
Why should ordinary people be expected to risk their safety fighting institutions that elected officials are excused from challenging?
I think political commentators like Kyle need to take several seats (well, I guess he’s already sitting) you can have disagreements over political strategies but to refer to protestors as “cia” as you sit in your backyard and talk to your phone is so incredibly condescending
Liberals are not leftists.
Liberals are right-lite with moral superiority complexes.
They maintain the status quo while telling leftists they’re fucking stupid for demanding action over performance.
Liberals are dangerous.
Mamdani’s admin is freaking out over the left wing criticism they are being hounded by.
Their plan right now is to try to shift all the pressure onto Jessica Tisch over ICE collaboration to push Palestine out of the discourse.