Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani raged at his socialist successor Zohran Mamdani and thinks the city should be forcing homeless people off the streets after several died during the brutal cold snap shivering the city.
“NYC has just experienced what it means to have a Democrat-Communist Mayor,” Giuliani raged on X Thursday morning. “The policy of NYC before, during, and after I was Mayor was to remove homeless from the streets when it approached freezing.”
“The incumbent Mayor has changed that policy,” he added, referring to Mayor Mamdani’s policy to leave the homeless alone if they don’t want help.
“During the recent storm ten people were found dead on the streets. Isn’t this tantamount to, at minimum, reckless disregard for human life?”
The ex-mayor’s fiery comments come as at least six people known to the shelter system have been found dead in the freezing weather since Saturday.
Three others have also died in the weather – with at least seven of the 10 suspected of succumbing to hypothermia.
Mamdani vowed to soften the city’s approach to homelessness when he took office in January, halting the encampment raids initiated by former Mayor Eric Adams, who left office last month.
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Mamdani doubled down on that position in the thick of the cold Tuesday, saying people will only be forced off the street “if a New Yorker is a danger to themselves or to others.
“This is a last resort,” he said. “Our first method of outreach is to communicate to homeless New Yorkers across the five boroughs as to the options that they have. We however are not going to leave someone out in the cold if they’re a danger to themselves or to others.”
