NYPD says school officials stonewalled probe into bullied slain student after Mamdani crowed about helping family

The NYPD said city education officials were stonewalling its probe into the fatal shooting of a potentially bullied Bronx schoolboy — after boss Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly crowed about helping the teen’s kin.But the Department of Education claimed Tuesday — the day after the Police Department’s public gripe — that it had cooperated with the investigation and provided all requested materials, although the NYPD would not confirm that and the DOE would not say whether it was complying with the investigation because of a subpoena.Mamdani had bragged about his effort to get tragic slain 15-year-old Javits Frimpong’s mother a visa to travel from Ghana for her son’s funeral in the Big Apple — announcing Saturday that President Trump agreed to grant his request.But just two days after the mayor positioned himself as a hero, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny claimed Mamdani’s Education Department was standing in the way of cops’ investigation of the bullying.“We’re working with the Department of Education.Unfortunately, they’re not willing to give us that information without a subpoena, so we’re going through proper channels to get that,” Kenny said during a briefing with reporters.As for whether the teen was bullied — as his father has suggested, Kenny said, “It’s one aspect that we’re looking at, as well as some others.”Brooklyn Democratic state Assemblyman Kalman Yeger blasted the DOE’s alleged at least intial refusal to provide detectives with potential crucial information without a subpoena. “In Mamdani’s New York, the public school system @NYCSchools refuses to help catch a child’s murderers,” Yeger fumed on X.The DOE’s website says student information can be shared with a parent’s written consent, or with appropriate officials during a “health or safety emergency” without that permission.Javits’ father, Thomas Frimpong, has said the principal at DreamYard Preparatory School called him two days before...