Exclusive | Mamdanis team pissed over Darializa Avila Chevaliers calls for Tisch to be canned: Direct undermining of Mamdani
A sickle to the back!Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s allies are publicly breaking with him over his handpicked police commissioner — and Hizzoner is livid that the socialist House candidate he went out on a limb to endorse is leading the charge.City Hall staffers have been openly whining about alleged ally Darializa Avila Chevalier — who Mamdani endorsed just a few months ago during the primaries — after she led a crusade to slam NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch after ICE agents shot an illegal migrant in the Bronx.“They were pissed about what she did on social media and her public rhetoric on NYPD,” one source with knowledge said.“City Hall was like, ‘what the f–k are you doing!’”The ICE shooting may mark the end of the socialist honeymoon for some Mamdani supporters, as some lefty pols and the national branch of his comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America push for Tisch’s ouster despite Hizzoner standing by his commissioner.Another source said that folks in the admin griped that, “this was a direct undermining of Mamdani.”The DSA dysfunction unfolded publicly last Friday when Chevalier rage-tweeted about immigration officials shooting a suspected gang member as he fled arrest in a car.
The supposed Mamdani ally accused Tisch and the NYPD of violating the Big Apple’s sanctuary city laws that bar cops from assisting ICE.“Last night, the NYPD and Commissioner Tisch violated the spirit, if not the letter, of our sanctuary city policies and fueled the Trump Administration’s attempt to demonize our communities,” she wrote in her nearly 400-word tirade.“The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group must be disbanded as quickly as possible, and Commissioner Tisch must step down,” she continued.The NYPD did not assist ICE in the immigration arrest, nor did the SRG respond to the protest.City Hall was also annoyed about Avila Chevalier encouraging the anti-ICE protests, worried that any signs of disorder could give the Trump administration re...