NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he won't fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch despite socialist pressure
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday he has "no plans" to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, pushing back against calls from his democratic socialist allies to remove the city's top cop following protests over an ICE-involved shooting in the Bronx.Ahead of a ceremony Tuesday honoring fallen NYPD officers, Mamdani was asked about Tisch's future as head of the department."Jessica Tisch is the police commissioner.I have no plans to change that," Mamdani told reporters."The reason that I made the decision to have Jessica Tisch as the police commissioner was because of her record of uprooting corruption from the upper echelons of the NYPD while lowering crime across our city," he continued.
"And over the last 10 months that we've worked together, we have delivered the lowest recorded number of murders in our city's history, the lowest recorded number of shootings as well as shooting victims."SOCIALIST SURGE: MAMDANI FLEXES GROWING POLITICAL MUSCLE AS HE TAKES ON DEM ESTABLISHMENTNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks alongside Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch during a news conference at Gracie Mansion in New York City on March 9.(Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images)The mayor's comments came after the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) called for Tisch's removal following last week's ICE shooting and demanded that Mamdani use his authority to drive ICE out of New York City.The demand followed last week's shooting of Oscar Belgal during a federal immigration operation in the Bronx.According to the Department of Homeland Security, Belgal, a 28-year-old Dominican national, was shot after allegedly refusing to comply with officers' orders during a targeted ICE operation to arrest him.NYC SOCIALIST CANDIDATE SAYS CRIMINAL RECORD OF MAN SHOT BY ICE 'DOESN'T EVEN MATTER'New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference at the site where a man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer du...