Mayor Eric Adams slammed mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani for blowing off NYPD funerals during his years as a state lawmaker — and only now showing up while making a run for City Hall.
“You should lift up officers when you’re not running for mayor,” Adams told reporters at City Hall on Monday. “He could have lifted them up when he was an assemblyman. He could have done it over the years when he was in Albany.
“We lost officers before he was running for mayor. Where was he? Did he feel those officers deserve to be lifted up as he lifted up now Officer Islam during the election? We need to ask, where was he?”
Mamdani, 33, served more than four years in the state Assembly before his surprise Democratic mayoral primary win against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June.
The Ugandan-born lefty paid his respects to relatives of NYPD cop Didarul Islam last week, after the four-year department veteran was gunned down in a mass shooting inside a Park Avenue office building.
But that was apparently a rare moment.
Records reviewed by The Post show that Mamdani was a no-show — and didn’t say a peep — after a half dozen of New York’s Finest died during his tenure in Albany after they were gunned down in the line of duty.
All six hero cops who died between January 2022 and March of last year — Jonathan Diller, Troy D. Patterson, Lawrence Bromm, Wilbert Mora, Jason Rivera and crossing guard Krystyna Naprawa — were laid to rest before thousands in uniform, but not even condolences were offered by the Queens lawmaker.
“Not one time has [Mamdani] said something in response to a police officer who’s been shot or killed,” Adams said Monday, pointing out the 2022 killing of Mora and Rivera. “We cannot find one tweet that he made, or one comment that he made when that happened.”
Neither did The Post.
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