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Bowdoin College Grad AKA NYC Mayor Caught In Middle Of Political Snowball Fight

Ted CohenBy Ted CohenFebruary 26, 2026Updated:April 19, 20261 Comment2 Mins Read
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The alleged “white supremacy” Zohran Mamdani was railing against while attending Bowdoin College was nothing compared to the whiteout he’s now up against in New York City.

In his first political firestorm as the first Muslim mayor of the nation’s largest city, Mamdani is being criticized for failing to support cops injured this week in a snowball attack.

NYPD had responded to a snowball fight in a city park that had allegedly gotten out of hand.

But when the snowballers saw the word POLICE on officers’ uniforms, they began pelting them with chunks of ice, injuring two cops.

In fact, some of the snowballing hoodlums claimed they thought the cops were ICE.

The city’s police commissioner – who Mamdani hired – is calling on her boss to investigate what she calls assaults on police officers.

But Mamdani, who made it well-known during his mayoral campaign he hates cops, is refusing to take the bait.

He’s minimizing the melee in the park that left two police officers injured as nothing more than a good old-fashioned snowball fight.

“I’ve said that what I saw was a snowball fight,” the mayor said Wednesday. “It should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of hand. But that’s what it was.”

Former NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said the mayor is jeopardizing his relationship with the department.

“Not to back up the men and women is really, really bad. It’s as bad as you can get,” Boyce said. “So, this is a seminal moment, right here and we’ll see how it goes from here. Because I think it’s important to understand just how important this is to the police department.”

“This was not just a ‘snowball fight.’ This was an assault,” the Police Benevolent Association said in a statement.

Besides being anti-cop – except when they’re protecting him – Mamdani’s four years at Bowdoin included many student-newspaper columns he wrote accusing the elite liberal arts college of white supremacy – and where he founded Students for Justice in Palestine.

In one Bowdoin student-newspaper column he headlined “White Privilege,” in 2013, Mamdani called for a wider “diversity” of opinion writers.

During his campaign for mayor, Mamdani, a socialist Democrat, apologized for language he’d previously used to describe the police department, once referring to it in a social media post as “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”

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Seamus
2 months ago

I grew up in Boston and was a teenager in the 70s. Went to college there. I can imagine the reaction of the Boston police if a bunch of young people threw snowballs at them.

A long time ago, Manhattan was a crime-ridden place. Only city I’d go to on business and just stay in the hotel and order room service. That changed with Guiliani when he addressed the common crimes of graffiti, broken witndows, etc, and enforced the laws. Crime rates went down significantly. and it started with the little things. Like snowballs.

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