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A sickle to the back!
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s allies are publicly breaking with him over his handpicked police commissioner — and Hizzoner is livid that the socialist House candidate he went out on a limb to endorse is leading the charge.
City Hall staffers have been openly whining about alleged ally Darializa Avila Chevalier — whom Mamdani endorsed just a few months ago during the primaries — after she led a crusade to slam NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch after ICE agents shot an illegal migrant in the Bronx.
“They were pissed about what she did on social media and her public rhetoric on NYPD,” one source with knowledge said. “City Hall was like, ‘what the f–k are you doing!’”
The ICE shooting may mark the end of the socialist honeymoon for some Mamdani supporters, as some lefty pols and the national branch of his comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America push for Tisch’s ouster despite Hizzoner standing by his commissioner.
Another source said that folks in the admin griped that, “this was a direct undermining of Mamdani.”
The DSA dysfunction unfolded publicly last Friday when Chevalier rage-tweeted about immigration officials shooting a suspected gang memberas he fled arrest in a car. The supposed Mamdani ally accused Tisch and the NYPD of violating the Big Apple’s sanctuary city laws that bar cops from assisting ICE.
“Last night, the NYPD and Commissioner Tisch violated the spirit, if not the letter, of our sanctuary city policies and fueled the Trump Administration’s attempt to demonize our communities,” she wrote in her nearly 400-word tirade.
“The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group must be disbanded as quickly as possible, and Commissioner Tisch must step down,” she continued.
The NYPD did not assist ICE in the immigration arrest, nor did the SRG respond to the protest.
City Hall was also annoyed about Chevalier encouraging the anti-ICE protests, worried that any signs of disorder could give the Trump administration reason to flood the streets, sources said.
The congressional candidate had also ranted in her screed about being pushed during an aggressive protest in Marble Hill Thursday night after video captured her getting in a calm police supervisor’s face, accusing him of escalating the situation.
“She is throwing her own fireball rhetoric to rally the folks,” one source said, adding, “But instigating doesn’t help.”
But the calls from the far-left fellow democratic socialist set off a media firestorm for Mamdani, who appointed Tisch — a Zionist Jew, despite his and his party’s outspoken criticism of Israel — and vowed to disband the SRG during the campaign.
Hizzoner, who dodged the city’s press corps for days, was inundated with demands from his socialist comrades and the national DSA chapter to get rid of the police commissioner and honor his campaign pledge when it came to dissolving the specialized police unit.
DSA member and state Senate candidate Illapa Sairitupac, who was also endorsed by the mayor, joined the call after Chevalier.
“Abolish ICE, disband the SRG, fire Tisch,” he wrote.
The NYC DSA chapter, whose leaders are close friends of the mayor, took a softer tone, saying Tisch should be fired if she can’t confront ICE.
“Jessica Tisch must get ICE out of New York and end NYPD complicity with these terrorists,” the group wrote on social media. “If the Commissioner can’t put a stop to these injustices, she must be fired.”
Neither of the other two other House candidates that Mamdani endorsed, Brad Lander and Claire Valdez, issued similar calls.
But insiders told The Post that Chevalier doesn’t plan on letting up.
The bombastic soon-to-be member of the House of Representatives and her team are working on a speech — potentially on Election Night or sooner — to call on Tisch to be fired.
Sources said that the young mayor was talked into endorsing Chevalier by his adviser, Morris Katz, but isn’t a fan of her.
For her part, Chevalier is distancing herself from the mayor, despite most crediting the mayor’s backing and campaigning for helping her win New York’s 13th Congressional primary, taking down incumbent Democrat Adriano Espaillat in June.
The 13th CD is overwhelmingly blue, and winning the Democratic line all but guarantees Chevalier’s win the general election next month.
Campaign canvassers are now under strict instructions not to say anything about the mayor, according to the sources.
“I can’t speak about the mayor, but I can tell you what Darializa is prioritizing,” the volunteers are told to say, according to a person briefed.
Sources said the impulsive Chevalier has been on City Hall and Mamdani’s radar as a potential liability for some time, but they didn’t think she would be an issue so early on.
“They are not naive to who their problems are — [Council Speaker Julie] Menin, Republicans, etc., and she is on the dartboard,” the insider said.
“She’s a loose cannon,” they continued, “They are sick of her, and she’s not even started in Congress.”
