Mamdani cries at a murderer’s death — will he ever – Latest News
Giving damning proof of the left’s twisted priorities, Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week mourned the death of a Rikers inmate awaiting trial for a brutal homicide — with nary a thought for Clarence Woodward’s sufferer, or his survivors.
Progressives by no means miss a probability to sympathize with criminals; they see the one true crime to be placing people behind bars as a substitute of addressing the “root causes” of social dysfunction.
“I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning,” Mamdani tweeted Tuesday, additionally extending his sympathy to Woodward’s “family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.”
Corrections Commissioner Stanley Richards likewise bemoaned the “tragedy.”
Woodward took the life of Jose Miranda with a meat cleaver in a Bronx laundromat in 2024; Miranda’s household rightly calls the mayor’s phrases “a slap in the face.”
Yes, because the pro-criminal, “close Rikers” claque by no means tires of telling us, people awaiting trial within the metropolis’s jails are legally as harmless as kittens.
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Thing is, Woodward had simply been launched from jail on parole for assault and tried theft when he butchered Jose Miranda on digital camera.
The true tragedy is how progs have “reformed” the criminal-justice system to keep placing confirmed menaces (Woodward’s rap sheet ran to 30 priors) back on the road.
Fine, the mayor wasn’t flawed to notice that “too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island”; then again, they’re not being murdered by correction officers.
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Most of them die after a “medical emergency,” usually code for a drug overdose; others, at the arms of fellow inmates.
Mamdani has long flaunted his affection for the denizens of Rikers, heading on the market for a Ramadan iftar break-fast, a June commencement ceremony and again final month to watch the England-Argentina World Cup semifinal with a gang of inmates.
Maybe he thinks hardened criminals are his core constituency?
Or maybe he simply needs to keep tempo with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who provided “condolences” for the household of a knife-wielding fiend killed by police in March 2025 after chasing two innocents into a Chick-fil-A.
Inverting blame and reversing trigger and impact is what the left does.
It pretends thieves, thugs and killers are heroes putting out towards injustice.
And its sees those that stand towards them — from police officers to ICE brokers pursuing violent lawbreakers to troopers preventing terrorism — as its worst enemies.
Progressives actually do despise civilization.
