Exclusive | NYPD warns Mamdanis anti-Netanyahu crusade has created powder keg that could endanger cops, public during UN visit
New York City is bracing for a security nightmare next month when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Gotham — and cops are blaming Mayor Zohran Mamdani.The PM’s visist will now necessitate a massive, presidential-level police shield and furious NYPD sources told The Post that Mamdani’s reckless, anti-Bibi obsession emboldens radical agitators, leaving frontline cops and everyday New Yorkers squarely in the crosshairs.“Basically, he’s making what would be considered a Category 1 hurricane that we deal with every year into a Category 5 because of his words,” a law enforcement source said.Hizzoner is staunchly pro-Palestine and anti-Israel and called for Netanyahu’s arrest during his 2025 mayoral campaign.He reiterated those threats last month before acknowledging the NYPD doesn’t have the authority to do so.Mamdani then urged his radical base to “take to the streets” during Netanyahu’s visit, saying “one of the bedrocks of our city is protest.”That has enraged many police officers who already have their work cut out for them, the law enforcement source said.“We have to protect hotels, we have to protect wherever [dignitaries] go out to eat, we have to protect everything,” the law enforcement source said.“Having the mayor say, ‘Go ahead and protest, and he should be arrested’ .
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is unfair to your own cops.” Netanyahu is expected to arrive in the city next month for the United Nations General Assembly and is scheduled to address the body on Sept.26.Netanyahu’s full schedule isn’t yet known so the final number of police officers needed for his detail is up in the air, but it could grow to 60 or more with “direct and peripheral” officers, police sources said.
Most dignitaries get a protective detail of one sergeant and eight detectives.Security at the event also includes federal and state agents, usually supplemented by the foreign nation’s own agents.
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