In Mamdani’s world psycho killers are forever – Latest News
It was a crime that shocked the soul.
Jose Miranda stopped by a laundromat in The Bronx to wash his garments one scorching August day two years in the past, and was hacked to death, randomly, by a maniac with a meat cleaver.
He left behind two boys.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tweet on X concerning the death of an inmate at Rikers Island. X/ Mayor Zohran Mamdani
But Miranda and his orphaned youngsters aren’t the type of people Mayor Zohran Mamdani has in thoughts when he waxes poetic about “New Yorkers.”
Their father’s assassin, nevertheless, very a lot is: When Clarence Woodward, a profession legal with 27 prior arrests, died in custody this week — the circumstances of his death are nonetheless unclear — the mayor took to social media to mourn the loss of our great homicidal neighbor.
“I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning,” the mayor wrote.
“My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.”
Every life misplaced, for no matter purpose, is a tragedy.
But why would the mayor offer his solemn sympathies to the Woodwards whereas having nothing to say in help of the Mirandas?
Because in Mamdani’s ethical universe — the inverted, bizzarro worldview championed by the unconventional left — psycho killers are forever wronged and aggrieved souls worthy of our adoration, whereas their victims ought to stay silent and examine their privilege.
Misguided Mam
It has all the time been so with Mamdani.
As a younger man, going by the moniker Mr. Cardamom, he rapped enthusiastically in help of the Holy Land Five, convicted of routing hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to Hamas.
He has little to say concerning the victims of Hamas terrorist assaults.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press convention at Manhattan Housing Court in New York City on Tuesday, August 25, 2026. Michael Brochstein/ZUMA / SplashNews.com
No matter the placement, no matter the circumstances, the Mamdani ethical precept is straightforward: Always facet with the killers, by no means with their victims.
You’re free to dismiss this worldview as simply one other instance of increased schooling gone mistaken, and dismiss the younger mayor as simply one other clueless faculty grad reared on the sheer lunacy that passes for progressive politics nowadays.
But when the individual holding these dangerously immoral beliefs is in charge of the security and well-being of hundreds of thousands, it seems unhealthy concepts result in disastrous penalties.
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“We do not yet know the cause of death,” Mamdani declared in his assertion, “but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island.”
Maybe!
But guess what?
Too many New Yorkers have additionally fallen sufferer to violent crimes below an administration that clearly cares more concerning the perpetrators than their prey.
Backward pity
It’s progressives who pushed by means of a host of justice “reforms” that make sure criminals aren’t given bail and don’t face jail.
The Mamdani administration will no doubt examine the circumstances of Woodward’s death to back up their own biases towards Rikers particularly and justice on the whole.
But who within the metropolis authorities will surprise why career-criminal Woodward was freed on parole simply a few weeks earlier than he strolled into the 303 Laundromat on East one hundred and seventieth Street, took one take a look at Miranda, after which chopped at his legs and higher physique till he died?
Let all of us, notably the mayor, consider these actually worthy of our condolences — the widows and orphans and bereaved dad and mom whose world was shattered by killers coddled by virtue-signaling morons.
Liel Leibovitz is editor at giant for Tablet and senior fellow on the Hudson Institute.
