Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg were blasted Friday as the city’s “Axis of Anarchy” over their handling of the hooligans who winged icy snowballs at NYPD Finest.
The lefty Hizzoner has refused to call the violent attack anything more than “kids” play and even joked that if anyone should be hit with a snowball, it was he — despite the fact that two cops were sent to the hospital with injuries from the melee.
Bragg’s prosecutors then declined to level a police-assault charge against accused cop-pelter and YouTuber Gusmane Coulibaly, claiming they couldn’t confirm the 27-year-old man’s alleged actions physically injured a responding officer.
“Zohran Mamdani and Alvin Bragg are New York City’s Axis of Anarchy,” said a state GOP party rep in a statement Friday.
“They just sent a message to the mob loud and clear: attack cops, and the radical Democratic establishment will have your back.”
Police union President Patrick Hendry also claimed the district attorney’s office was “downplaying” the incident after Coulibaly’s arraignment, in which the defendant walked out of court on supervised release.
“So why wasn’t assault charged? Why was harassment charged? Why do they feel that that didn’t cause an injury to a police officer, which he clearly, clearly has an injury below his eye?” Hendry said.
“That fact is, this was a blatant attack on the uniform that they wear so proudly every day,” he said.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch — who has been furious over the attack on the cops — warned Friday that she won’t just stand by and watch her officers get hurt.
“One thing that you can count on with me is this: I will hold this department to the highest standards,” she said at a promotions ceremony to rank-and-file officers.
“When those standards are met, I will always be fiercely protective of you, and as you’ve seen recently, I certainly will not tolerate any attacks on my cops, period.”
But Mamdani again declined to echo his top cop’s sentiment Friday when asked about the downgraded charge against one of the perps.
“And what I’ve said in regards to the snowball fight is that it’s a snowball fight that got out of hand, and I don’t really have much more to say,” he told reporters at an unrelated event in Brooklyn.
The DA’s office declined comment, instead pointing to its argument made in court Thursday evening.
Assistant District Attorney Victoria Notaro said that while one of the victimized cops suffered redness, tenderness and pain under his left eye, prosecutors couldn’t prove “that the injury was obtained directly from the defendant.”
Former NYPD Chief of Department-turned-commentator John Chell notably defended Manhattan prosecutors, pointing out the difficulty in proving the cop suffered an injury at the hands of the snowball-tossing suspect.
“However, the charge of OGA, Obstructing Gov Admn, will be charged as a misdemeanor. It will be dealt with accordingly,” he wrote on X in response to a right-wing influencer decrying the dropped assault charge.
“The probable cause was good and all charges not dropped.”
At least three more accused snow-pelting perps are on the lam.