Officer, arrest that Mam!
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo quipped that Zohran Mamdani should be the one who gets arrested after saying he’d order the NYPD to cuff Benjamin Netanyahu if the Israeli prime minister steps foot in New York City.
Cuomo, who is running in the November mayoral race as an independent, said it would be an “absurd” politicizing of the justice system for Mamdani, if he gets elected, to try to have Netanyahu arrested.
“It would be illegal. The only person who should be arrested in that fashion is Mamdani,” Cuomo told reporters Monday.
The former governor also took a jab at the Democratic Party nominee for his past “derogatory” remarks about the police department — and for Mamdani’s still-unfulfilled promise that he’d apologize to the NYPD for the insults.
“He said he would apologize for it and he should apologize for it,” Cuomo said.
“I haven’t heard him apologize for calling the NYPD racist,” he continued, referring to Mamdani being elusive about when that mea culpa might take place.
Mamdani has also repeatedly said he wants to honor the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Netanyahu for the war in Gaza, including in a New York Times interview days ago.
“The great irony here is that you talk about politicizing the justice system, and how President Trump politicizes the justice system, and uses the justice system to play politics,” Cuomo said. “This would be that to an absurd extent, that you [Mamdani] would use the NYPD.”
A spokesperson for Mamdani, the leading mayoral candidate, according to the latest polls, slammed Cuomo’s latest attack.
“Andrew Cuomo would rather arrest his political rival than condemn a war criminal charged with genocide,” Mamdani campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec said.
“Cuomo seemingly taking a page out of his long-time friend Donald Trump’s playbook isn’t just outrageous — it’s authoritarian, it’s dangerous, and it’s morally bankrupt.”
