Damn the cops, ignore the antisemites: Mamdani’s all-too-telling first instincts

It only took a week for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to vomit up the anti-cop hostility that he kept down to win in November.

His first response to two officer-involved shootings Thursday night was insanely slanted, implying New York City cops are guilty until proven innocent — when the facts in both cases showed the officers in fact performed heroically.

Frantic security officers at Brooklyn’s Methodist Hospital called in the NYPD to handle a man who had sliced himself, bloodied a hallway and barricaded himself with two hostages in a hospital room.

Cops tried to reason with the madman for seven minutes, tased him and then, when he advanced with his edged weapon, shot him — fatally, it turned out.

Later that evening, a motorist who had just been sideswiped by a BMW in the West Village flagged down officers for assistance.

As they approached the reckless driver’s car, he stepped out and aimed an apparent gun at them: They quickly drew and acted to protect their lives and the lives of bystanders.

Yes, the weapon turned out to be a realistic-looking air pistol, but they had no way of knowing that.

Some police shootings are complicated, the officer’s judgment questionable, at least to outsiders; these incidents, however, were clean, reasonable uses of force by any standard.

Yet the mayor’s first comment, Friday morning, was to call the shootings “devastating to all New Yorkers” without any note of the obvious fact that the cops were simply doing their jobs.

Then he announced “the NYPD is conducting an internal investigation” that he’d ensure “is as thorough and swift as possible” — implying that the department might sweep something under the rug if he weren’t on top of things.

Worse, he preached: “These tragedies are painful, whether they take place steps from our homes or miles away” — an obvious wave at the Minneapolis shooting — and talked of “the immense work that must be done to deliver genuine public safety.”

On Minneapolis, he’d already labeled the shooting of Renee Good a “murder,” an inflammatory and unsolicited verdict on a controversial case amid a nationwide spate of attacks on federal agents, then went on MS NOW to declare ICE a rogue agency acting with “reckless impunity.”

Worse is the wave at “immense work” needed to yield “genuine public safety” here in New York — a clear declaration that these incidents indicate we don’t have such safety now, clearly implying that he believes the cops were in the wrong both times.

Of course, the “immense work” he already plans involves replacing police with social workers, defunding the NYPD to hire “violence interrupters” and sending mental-health counselors to deal with maniacs rampaging through hospitals.

Hours later, no doubt after getting an earful from Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, he finally acknowledged the “difficult and dangerous circumstances” the officers faced in both shootings.

Note, too, that this so-called “son of Queens” took the time to throw shade on heroic cops but not to condemn the vile protestors who chanted “We support Hamas here” outside a Kew Gardens synagogue Thursday night.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Queens Beep Donovan Richards — among many others — all took care to denounce this overt antisemitism.

Mamdani?

Only when The Post pressed for comment did he say, “I think that that language is wrong. I think that language has no place in New York City.”

Ignore the antisemites; go verbally gunning for heroes in blue: The new mayor’s instinctive reactions make it plain where his heart lies.