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Deadliest NYC shooting in decades takes center stage in mayoral race as candidates spar on public safety
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The four candidates running to be the next mayor of New York City are reacting to the worst mass shooting in the city in a quarter-century as public safety and crime continue to be one of the most prevalent issues in the race.
«Officer Didarul Islam was one of four people killed in yesterday’s horrific shooting,» Mamdani posted on X on Tuesday, a day after four people, including NYPD officer Islam, were gunned down by a Nevada man inside a high-rise office building on Park Avenue before the shooter took his own life in a crime that sent shockwaves though the city.
«A Bangladeshi immigrant who joined the NYPD four years ago, he lived in Parkchester with his pregnant wife, their two young children, and his elderly parents.»
Mamdani’s post continued, «When he joined the police department, his mother asked him why he would pursue such a dangerous job. He told her it was to leave behind a legacy that his family could be proud of. He has done that, and more.
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A split image of New York City mayoral candidates (from left to right) Zohran Mamdani, Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. (Getty Images)
«I pray for him, his family, and honor the legacy of service and sacrifice he leaves behind.»
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Mamdani’s post faced backlash from some online who accused the mayoral candidate of giving lip service to the police given his previous calls to defund the police and a post where he said «nature is healing» in response to someone who said they saw a police officer crying in his car.
Some also pointed to Mamdani’s previous pledge to disband the New York Police Department’s Strategic Response Group (SRG) which was a unit that responded to the midtown shooting.
«Come on, @ZohranKMamdani,» Republican New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov posted on X. «Spare us the BS.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani for an interview but did not receive a response.
During a Wednesday press conference, Mamdani offered comfort to the families of all the victims and attempted to distance himself from his previous calls to defund the police, saying that his «statements in 2020» were made out of «frustration» regarding the death of George Floyd.
«To the families of Aland and Officer Islam and to security guards and police officers across the city,» Mamdani said. «I want to thank them for the work that they do each and every day.»
The 33-year-old democratic socialist returned to New York City on Wednesday from his wedding celebration in Uganda and immediately visited the home of the fallen NYPD officer, Didarul Islam, and then held a press conference with Islam’s brother at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) headquarters in Manhattan.
Mamdani continued, «Looking at the crisis of retention that we have in the city today, to try and pin it upon tweets from five years ago, as opposed to the conditions of this moment, is to ignore what officers themselves are saying.»
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is running for re-election in 2024. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
«When you ask officers why they leave, one of the leading causes they cite is forced overtime, an inability to have a quality of life when they know they are actually going to come home. These are the kinds of things that we have to address to ensure that not only can we keep the officers we have on the job, but that we can also deliver on public safety,» Madamni said.
Incumbent mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer, is campaigning for re-election as an Independent.
In his official capacity as mayor, Adams was quick to the scene Monday evening, posting social media updates and holding news conferences to relay the latest information on the tragic incident to New Yorkers.
Since the shooting, Adams has attended the dignified transfer of Islam, and a multi-faith prayer vigil to honor the four victims.
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NYPD Crime Scene Unit investigator takes pictures of a bullet hole at the scene of a deadly mass shooting in Manhattan, New York City, on July 29, 2025. (Kylie Cooper/Reuters)
«We must continue to stand together every day to fight back against and prevent the senseless gun violence in our country,» Adams shared on X.
Adams revealed to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on «The Story» on Tuesday that the New York City gunman acquired part of his rifle from an associate.
«The lower part [of the rifle] we are finding out was purchased by an associate,» Adams said.
The New York City mayor said there is a «mental health aspect» to Monday’s shooting, and «we have to ensure that our laws are stronger.»
«Our laws must be clearer on identifying those with mental health issues,» Adams said.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa speaks during an anti-migrant rally and protest outside of Gracie Mansion on Aug. 27, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Adams, who was unavailable for an interview before publication, clarified that «this incident did not unfold because of the lack of police personnel, it unfolded because a very dangerous person decided he was going to take the life of anyone he came in contact with.»
But Curtis Sliwa, the two-time Republican nominee for New York City mayor, told Fox News Digital that he believes understaffing played a role in the tragedy.
«My initial reaction is exactly the reaction that I had when, a year ago, we saw Luigi Mangione gun down that health care executive right in the midtown area as he waited for him at a nearby Starbucks across from the Hilton,» Sliwa told Fox News Digital.
«The police were not patrolling the area. It used to be in areas like that of high traffic. Tourists and business people in Fortune 500 companies would have a foot patrol in a sector. They’ve eliminated that because we just don’t have enough police.»
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Candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference while campaigning outside a Subway station in New York City, on April 1, 2025. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
Sliwa dismissed calls for more gun control in the wake of the shooting and said instead what the city «desperately» needs is more police officers on the streets.
«We’re down to 31,000 cops,» Sliwa said. «We need to get them up to 40,000. And I’m the only candidate who is saying we need to hire immediately 7,000 trained professional police officers to be visible in the streets of New York.»
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running for mayor as an Independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic Primary, spoke to Fox News Digital by phone and criticized Mamdani’s record on policing, including his previous call to disband the SRG.
«He said just a few months ago, he would disband the Strategic Response Group, which was the group that responds to first attacks and responded to this Park Avenue situation, and he’s been very consistent, he said in the campaign ‘defund the police,’» Cuomo said.
«He goes the next step, dismantle the police, right? But he has said the NYPD are racists, the police are a threat to public safety. So I have said that I think he’s dangerous because he doesn’t understand the need for public safety in this city.»
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced he was relaunching his New York City mayoral campaign as an independent. (REUTERS/David ‘Dee’ Delgado)
Cuomo told Fox News Digital that the shooting has the potential to shake up the mayoral race.
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«Yes, it does, because New Yorkers have PTSD from 9/11 and from other horrific situations, and I think it’s always in the back of every New Yorker’s mind that all it takes is one mentally ill person with an assault weapon and that’s TNT,» Cuomo explained.
«That is a public safety stick of dynamite and, yeah, I think it brought that back. It’s sort of back to reality, right? New York City, you’re a target. You are a target, you’re an international target for terrorists. You are the big stage for people who want to make a statement.»
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is reaffirming its support for diversity, equity, and inclusion, better known to millions of Americans by its acronym, DEI.
The DNC’s Resolutions Committee, meeting on Tuesday during the second day of the national party’s annual summer meeting, unanimously passed a resolution affirming what it highlighted as the «American Values’ of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The approval of the resolution, which will face a vote by the full 400-plus DNC membership on Wednesday, comes amid relentless conservative backlash against DEI programs in recent years.
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The Democratic National Committee’s Resolutions Committee meets at the DNC’s summer meeting, in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 26, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)
During the 2024 election cycle, now-President Donald Trump and Republicans repeatedly criticized Democrats for their longstanding support for DEI efforts and transgender rights, turning the Democrats’ stance into a political liability.
Republicans spent tens of millions on ads last year bashing transgender women in female sports. A commercial targeting then-Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee last summer and autumn, argued that «Kamala is for they/them, Donald Trump is for you.»
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Following last year’s election setbacks, when Democrats lost control of the White House and Senate and failed to win back the House majority, some in the party have second-guessed their support for DEI and transgender rights.
Trump, in the opening months of his second term in the White House, has signed several executive orders taking aim at transgender and DEI policies implemented by then-President Joe Biden and by major universities and corporations.
President Donald Trump has signed executive orders that take aim at diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts implemented by former President Joe Biden as well as by major corporations and universities. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
But DNC committee member Bill Owen of Tennessee, who spoke in support of the resolution in front of the panel, took aim at Republicans as he praised DEI values.
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«These are American values. This is what America was built on,» Owen said. «And to my Republican friends and fellow citizens…who profess to be active Christians, I remind them that D.E.I.is the very foundation of the Christian church. I get a little emotional on this, but Jesus loves little children. All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white.»
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting, on Aug. 25, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)
«This week’s DNC meeting has proven once again just how disconnected Democrats are from the values and priorities of everyday Americans,» RNC communications director Zach Parkinson told Fox News Digital. «The DNC reaffirmed their party’s support for radical, racist DEI ideology and insulted Christians across the country by saying DEI is ‘the very foundation’ of Christianity. It’s no wonder Democrats’ approval rating is in the toilet.»
The vote by the Resolutions Committee on the DEI resolution came a day after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate on the Democrats’ 2024 national ticket, said in an address at the DNC summer meeting that «we’re proud to be a diverse party. We are proud of the diversity of this country. We’re not shying away from diversity as a strength and equity as a goal and inclusion being the air we breathe. That’s what we should be doing.»
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DEI efforts have been aimed at fostering fair treatment and full participation for all people, particularly those who have faced discrimination or underrepresentation.
But Trump, upon returning to the White House at the beginning of this year, called DEI efforts «illegal and immoral discrimination programs» and «public waste.»
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Reform UK proposes deporting 600,000 asylum seekers in sweeping new immigration crackdown
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Reform UK said it’s prepared to deport 600,000 asylum seekers from Britain to prevent «civil disorder.»
Party leader Nigel Farage said the plan includes withdrawing Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), repealing the Human Rights Act, and scrapping international treaties that block forced deportations, Reuters reported.
The ECHR, a cornerstone of U.K. human rights law, has repeatedly been used to halt deportations of migrants deemed to be in the country illegally, the BBC reported.
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British Reform Party leader Nigel Farage poses in front of a mock departures board during a Tuesday press conference in a hangar at Oxford Airport in Kidlington, England. (Joanna Chan/AP )
«We are not far away from major civil disorder,» Farage told a press conference. «It is an invasion, as these young men illegally break into our country.»
Dubbed Operation Restoring Justice, the plan is the «only way» to stop small boats crossing the English Channel, Farage said, adding that migrants intercepted at sea should be detained and deported.
«If we do that, the boats will stop coming in days because there will be no incentive,» he claimed.
Labour Party Chairwoman Ellie Reeves criticized the announcement, saying it lacked detail.
«Today, we got none of those things, nor a single answer to the practical, financial, or ethical questions about how their plan would work,» she said.
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British Reform Party leader Nigel Farage shows the Operation Restoring Justice program during a press conference in a hangar at Oxford Airport in Kidlington, England. (Joanna Chan/AP)
The announcement followed weeks of small protests over mass migration and crimes committed by some asylum seekers.
Britain received a record 108,100 asylum applications in 2024, many from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Bangladesh.
Polling shows immigration has overtaken the economy as voters’ top concern. Reform UK, despite holding only four seats in Parliament, is leading in surveys of voting intentions, Reuters reported.
British Reform Party leader Nigel Farage addresses journalists during a press conference in a hangar at Oxford Airport in Kidlington, England, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (Joanna Chan/AP)
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Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook dismissed the proposals as «a series of gimmicks» that would not work. Reform’s opponents and several charities said the plan would amount to Britain abandoning its human rights commitments.
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