{"id":3466,"date":"2026-03-21T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/new-yorkers-fume-as-mamdani-breaks-ramadan-fast-with-rikers-inmates-but-cant-be-bothered-to-visit-injured-cops-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:03:00","slug":"new-yorkers-fume-as-mamdani-breaks-ramadan-fast-with-rikers-inmates-but-cant-be-bothered-to-visit-injured-cops-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/new-yorkers-fume-as-mamdani-breaks-ramadan-fast-with-rikers-inmates-but-cant-be-bothered-to-visit-injured-cops-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers fume as Mamdani breaks Ramadan fast with Rikers inmates\u2014 but can\u2019t be bothered to visit injured cops – New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing furious backlash after breaking his Ramadan fast with Muslim jailbirds on notorious Rikers Island \u2013 and describing it one of his \u201cmost meaningful evenings” since taking office.
\u201cIt was a night that will stay with me for quite some time,\u201d the city\u2019s first Muslim mayor gushed Friday on X about his <\/a>under the radar and historic visit on Monday, which by Saturday sparked a firestorm of outrage.
Earlier in the week, the soft-on-crime socialist told NPR <\/a> of his Rikers powwow: “This is one of the most meaningful evenings that I’ve had as the mayor of New York City.”
“This is me just being a Muslim New Yorker,” continued Mamdani, who has made a point to emphasize and promote his Muslim identity as mayor. “And I think there are some for whom that is a political act, and there are a million or so of us here in this city for whom it is simply a day-to-day existence.”
Critics bashed the mayor for consistently elevating criminals above crime victims.
\u201cHe actually visited inmates on Rikers but hasn\u2019t visited any victims of the heinous crimes some of these guys have committed,\u201d said an NYPD veteran of 20 years. \u201cI think it\u2019s absolutely disgusting.
\u201cWe clearly know he doesn\u2019t like us. He\u2019s already made his stance clear on that. Even after we get clear extensive video of the guy trying to knife the police officers in Queens, he visited the criminal’s family in that case too!,\u201d raged the police veteran.
He was referring to Mamdani last month visiting the family of Jabez Chakraborty<\/a>, the man shot by a police officer in Queens as he attacked the cop and his partner with a 13-inch carving knife.
\u201cHe can go visit the inmates at Rikers, but he can\u2019t go visit a cop who gets injured? That’s not right,\u201d said another law enforcement source, referring to cops hurt earlier this month responding to an ISIS-inspired attempted terrorist attack<\/a> outside the mayor’s home at Gracie Mansion.
\u201cI think next year there’ll be nobody to visit because he\u2019s going to let everybody out of jail. Maybe he was going there to tell them we\u2019re reducing everybody\u2019s sentences,\u201d the source said.
The visit was one of the 17 iftar, or breaking of the fast, dinners the mayor attended across NYC through Thursday and is the first time a NYC mayor has celebrated Ramadan at Rikers.
\u201cPeople sharing what little they have: breaking bread, offering prayer, making space for one another\u2019s dignity even in the hardest place,” Mamdani wrote on X, posting photos alongside Department of Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards, gladhanding with dozens of detainees as they gobbled packaged meals.
Mamdani and Richards were also joined on Rikers by Councilman Yusef Salaam (D-Manhattan), a practicing Muslim and one of the \u201cCentral Park Five\u201d who were exonerated <\/a>in the infamous 1989 rape on a jogger.
NYC-based mystery novelist Daniel Friedman was among the many questioning Mamdani\u2019s priorities.
“You have to be an absolute monster to be sent to Rikers Island these days,\u201d he wrote on X.
“Offenders on Rikers all have long histories of doing things so horrible that even the woke, pro-crime judges and prosecutors in NYC don\u2019t want to be responsible for what they\u2019ll do if they let them go.\u201d
Sam Antar, a convicted fraudster and former CFO of electronics store Crazy Eddie said Mamdani elevated criminals at the expense of victims.
\u201cIf you commit a violent crime in NYC, Zohran Mamdani has your back,\u201d he wrote on X,.
The Mayor’s office didn’t respond to the criticism, but the DOC said there was “no cost to taxpayers for food. It was all donated.”
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Switch between CA and NY editions here.NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing furious backlash after breaking his Ramadan fast with Muslim jailbirds on notorious Rikers Island \u2013 and describing it one of his \u201cmost meaningful evenings” since taking office.\u201cIt was a night that will stay with me for quite some time,\u201d the city\u2019s first Muslim mayor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}