Socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is planning to axe an elite NYPD task force that charged into a Park Avenue building during Monday’s deadly mass shooting if he takes over City Hall — despite expressing how “grateful” he was for the first responders after the attack.
The far-left Queens assemblyman, who shockingly nabbed the Democratic nomination last month, vowed to disband the police department’s Strategic Response Group, SRG, on social media in December 2024.
“As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements and brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their First Amendment rights,” he wrote just two months after announcing his candidacy for mayor.
The SRG is a special operations division of the NYPD that responds to citywide mobilizations, civil disorders and major events. They also mobilize for emergency events like shootings and bank robberies, according to the NYPD’s website…