Zohran Mamdani has made a career out of attacking the brave men and women of law enforcement.
Now the cops he said that about have to work for him.
One captain just showed the whole city how he feels about that arrangement.
Captain James G. Wilson is a 20-year NYPD veteran who served as second-in-command at the 94th Precinct in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
On May 2, he was on duty outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center when anti-ICE protesters surrounded officers and baited him about his boss.
"Not my mayor," Wilson said on video, smiling. "He's total nonsense. He's an embarrassment."
Then he said all Democrats were "a waste of human race."
The clip spread across the internet within hours.
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Two days later, Wilson was stripped of his command and reassigned to the NYPD's communications division at a 911 call center in the Bronx.
Gone to a desk.
The NYPD confirmed the transfer and said Wilson's "disciplinary process is ongoing."
Mamdani Spent Years Calling to Defund the Police and Now He Runs It
The department says it bars officers from "publicly expressing personal views regarding a political party" while on duty.
Council Minority Leader David Carr of Staten Island wasn't buying it.
"We have heard city employees make disparaging remarks about our president, sometimes about Republicans or conservatives and even entire groups of New Yorkers, with absolutely no consequence," he said.
"Even if a policy prohibiting political speech by public employees is Constitutional, it sure as hell isn't enforced fairly or consistently," Carr added.
Councilwoman Joann Ariola of Queens said what every Republican in the city was already thinking.
"If Capt. Wilson had said something negative about Donald Trump, he'd probably be declared a hero and get a medal and a dinner at Gracie Mansion," she said.
The same protesters who filmed Wilson have spent years screaming at officers, publishing their home addresses, and calling the entire department a racist institution — all of it cheered on by the same City Hall now punishing Wilson for talking back.
New York City ZohranMamdani claimed he had no involvement in the transfer decision.
In June 2020, Mamdani posted publicly that the NYPD was "a major threat to public safety" and called to defund it entirely.
He campaigned on disbanding the NYPD's Strategic Response Group — the same unit that was first on the scene when a gunman carried out the deadliest mass shooting New York City had seen in 25 years, killing an officer in midtown Manhattan in July 2025.
After winning the election, he canceled a plan to hire 5,000 new officers and cut $22 million from the NYPD budget.
Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro said it plainly: "He doesn't believe in law enforcement."
Wilson had the same read.
The difference is Wilson said it out loud.
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City employees trash Donald Trump on the clock every day in New York.
Not one of them gets shipped to a Bronx call center for it.
Mamdani built his political career attacking cops, then ran for mayor on the votes of the people who believed him.
Now he runs the department.
And the first cop who told the truth about it is answering phones in a call center.
Wilson smiled when he said it.
That's what's eating City Hall alive — not the words, but the smile.
A 20-year veteran looked Mamdani's protesters dead in the face, said exactly what he thought, and didn't flinch.
Every cop in New York saw that video and knows Wilson said what they can't.
Sources:
- Ben Feuerherd, "NYPD Transfers Brooklyn Captain After Video Criticizing Mayor Mamdani," Gothamist, May 8, 2026.
- Cassandra MacDonald, "NYPD Captain Transferred to 911 Call Center After Viral Rant," The Gateway Pundit, May 7, 2026.
- "Brooklyn Captain Reassigned After Viral Mamdani Rant," Hoodline, May 10, 2026.
- Ward Clark, "Mamdani's No Speech Zone," RedState, May 10, 2026.
- "NYPD Captain Transferred After Criticizing Mamdani," CBS New York, May 7, 2026.
- Andrew Mark Miller, "Timeline: Evolution of Mamdani's Defunding Police Rhetoric," Fox News, August 2, 2025.
- Rep. Claudia Tenney, quoted in "Mamdani Faces Growing Backlash Over NYPD Cuts," The Center Square, February 19, 2026.
