New York City’s loony left is now openly embracing violent perps who attack cops; leaders from Mayor Zohran Mamdani on down need to reject this madness.
It’s one thing for Mamdani to show sympathy for the family of Jabez Chakraborti, shot and wounded in January when he charged at police with a large kitchen knife in his parents’ house in Queens.
It’s another for City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban and her comrades to insist that Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz is out of line for charging Chakraborti with assault after he underwent the “extreme and deeply traumatizing ordeal” of . . . trying to stab two cops.
Caban & Co. think the officers should’ve faced arrest for attempted murder; they demand that Katz drop all charges against Chakraborti so he and his family “can heal from the traumatic shooting in their home,” and, presumably, prepare a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city.
Surviving a violent encounter with the police makes you their victim, you see, even if you instigated the whole thing.
We saw the same dynamic at work in October, when ICE agents apprehended suspected Trinitario gangbanger Oscar Belgal in his car in the Marble Hill section of Manhattan; the Dominican national tried to ram the agents while driving away and got shot in the neck.
Lefty mobs assailed the federal agents carrying out a legal arrest and rioted as NYPD cops who tried to keep calm; Mamdani boasted of hours he spent on the phone with President Donald Trump and Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullins (unsuccessfully) “negotiating the release of the man ICE agents shot.
Huh? Belgal obvious wouldn’t deserve release if he hadn’t tried to ram the ICE agents, endangering his 5-year-old son in the back seat; he chose to resist — getting shot as a result is all on him.
To be fair, Caban and her crew don’t think anyone should be arrested, so you can’t say they’re being inconsistent.
But leaders who understand that police must protect the public need to call out their madness for what it is.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
