Snowballs, NYPD, And Mamdani’s Smarmy Disorder

In New York City, there’s been a gigantic freeze, a freeze that has not only beset New York City but also the rest of the East Coast.

In Washington Square Park, a group of people started hurling snowballs at several NYPD officers responding to a call. Not playfully either. They were actually trying to hurt them. They hurled objects at the police officers.

Every one of these individuals should be identified, arrested, and sent to jail — every single one of them. Hurling objects at police officers, assaulting police officers, mobs of people, some of them masked, trying to assault police officers — this is 1970s-style disorder in New York City.

And yes, it has been prompted and promoted by people like Zohran Mamdani. The attitude that governance has toward people who are hoodlums in the streets has a marked impact on whether or not people act like hoodlums in the street.

Forget about the broken windows theory. How about this: Attack a cop, you go to jail.

Pretty simple.

But the rising level of disorder and chaos we now see in the country is a direct result of governance decisions being made in blue cities, particularly by the people who actually run those blue cities. Does anyone think it has no impact on how people think of the cops that Zohran Mamdani has spent his entire career — prior to being elected mayor of New York — ripping on the cops and suggesting that they are a nefarious force for viciousness?

Of course, it has an impact.

Every single one of those people pelting the NYPD with snowballs should go to jail. Those are full-grown adults, by the way. Those are not kids. You’re not talking about misbegotten 15-year-old juvenile delinquents who get frisky with the cops.

If you look at the video, you can see people standing there, and when the cops arrive, they start hurling objects at them.

Jessica Tisch, who is the commissioner of the NYPD, put out this statement: “The NYPD is aware of certain videos taken earlier today in Washington Square Park showing individuals attacking cops. I want to be very clear: the behavior depicted is disgraceful, and it is criminal. Our detectives are investigating this matter.”

The NYPD is aware of certain videos taken earlier today in Washington Square Park showing individuals attacking cops.

I want to be very clear: The behavior depicted is disgraceful, and it is criminal.

Our detectives are investigating this matter.

— Jessica S. Tisch (@NYPDPC) February 24, 2026

Credit: @NYPDPC/X.com

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association stated, “This is the environment that NYC police officers are up against. Our police officers are being treated for their injuries, but the case CANNOT end there. The individuals involved must be identified, arrested and charged with assault on a police officer. And all of our city leaders must speak up to condemn this despicable attack.”

The fact is, this attitude toward the police has become commonplace in the United States.

Beginning in 2014, you had the Ferguson riots, justified by the president of the United States. Americans didn’t like that; Donald Trump was elected. You saw a reversion to a law-and-order attitude at the top, but in 2020, the anti-police attitude broke out anew on a much bigger scale.

Now you have blue cities that are being taken over by people who are effectively defund-the-police advocates.

Those advocates may turn around and claim they want to work with the cops, but it’s too late: message received.

This disorder comes from the top. It does not come from the bottom. A disordered government leads to a disordered citizenry. 

There’s a reason that we use the phrase “law and order.” It’s not just law; order also has to be implemented. 

Speaking of Zohran Mamdani — who has totally changed the policy in New York City with regard to getting people off the streets in the middle of blizzards, and then a bunch of people died — he’s saying that people actually died from overdoses, not because they were freezing. 

You’re doing a great job, Mayor Uselessness. 

“We have more than 500 homeless outreach workers who have been traversing the five boroughs looking to connect homeless New Yorkers with services and support,” he declared. “And what we’ve also learned is the tools that were effective over the course of the prolonged cold period —again, a historic period of subfreezing conditions — those are ones we’ve employed from the very first day of our response to this one. I’ll give you one example. A number of those New Yorkers who lost their lives. The preliminary indications came that it was from an overdose-related death.” 

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It might have helped if he had forced those people to go inside. Perhaps if he didn’t let people sleep outdoors at all —regardless of the weather —people would die less often of drug overdoses on the street. 

But Mayor Smarmy over there grins at the camera. 

Always. 

And then through that gritted, smarmy smile, he utters the most inane platitudes. 

New Yorkers: You broke it.

You bought it.