{"id":315558,"date":"2026-08-06T22:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315558\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:06:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:06:45","slug":"mamdani-booed-off-stage-at-staten-island-police-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315558\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani booed off stage at Staten Island police event"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani got a hostile reception from the one borough that never warmed to him, drawing sustained boos and chants of \u201cget out of here\u201d<\/a> less than a minute into his remarks at a Staten Island police event Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mamdani appeared at the 43rd annual NYPD Patrol Borough Staten Island National Night Out Against Crime<\/a>, held at Turtle Circle on the Midland Beach Boardwalk, where roughly 3,500 residents and families had gathered for the community-and-police event. As he approached the podium, sections of the crowd erupted in jeers and profanity, with some attendees shouting for him to leave. He kept a smile on his face throughout, thanked the crowd, and left the stage in under a minute.<\/p>\n

It was a sharp contrast to earlier that evening, when Mr. Mamdani joined NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch<\/a> at friendlier National Night Out stops in Brooklyn and Manhattan, touting record-low shootings and murders under his administration.<\/p>\n

Staten Island artist and activist Scott LoBaido was reportedly among a group hoping to confront Mr. Mamdani over his police budget decisions; witnesses described NYPD officers holding him back as he moved toward the stage. LoBaido later suffered a cardiac arrest at the event<\/a> and was hospitalized; first responders performed CPR and used a defibrillator before he was taken to Staten Island University Hospital.<\/p>\n

Staten Island is the only one of the city\u2019s five boroughs Mr. Mamdani lost in last November\u2019s mayoral election, where he took roughly 23% of the vote compared with Andrew Cuomo\u2019s 55% and Curtis Sliwa\u2019s 21%. The borough has been a persistent source of friction for the democratic socialist mayor, whose past statements calling to \u201cdefund\u201d the NYPD resurfaced during his campaign.<\/p>\n

That tension carried into his first city budget. Mr. Mamdani initially proposed adding 580 NYPD officers in his May executive budget, then dropped the increase from the final deal<\/a> after the proposal drew opposition from the NYC Democratic Socialists of America and other left-wing allies. Mr. Mamdani cited budget savings as the reason for the reversal, which kept the department\u2019s headcount flat at roughly 35,000; DSA organizers described it as a win for their pressure campaign. The move drew criticism from police unions and Republican council members alike.<\/p>\n

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Staten Island\u2019s Italian-American community has also clashed with City Hall this summer over a city immigrant-enclaves map<\/a> that omitted Little Italy and other historically Italian neighborhoods. Mr. Mamdani blamed the map\u2019s creation on the prior Adams administration and said his office would add the neighborhood in a future update.<\/p>\n

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