Mamdani crime transition advisor once raged she didn’t care if protestors burned Target down

One of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s transition advisers on crime once raged she didn’t care if Black Lives Matter protestors burned a department store to the ground — insinuating that demonstrators learned “all violence” from white people, newly resurfaced footage shows.

Tamika Mallory, who was among more than two dozen New Yorkers tapped to serve on the mayoral transition’s Committee on Community Safety, made the remarks during a fiery rally in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder in 2020.

“We are not responsible for the mental illness that has been inflicted upon our people by the American government, institutions and those people who are in positions of power. I don’t give a damn if they burn down Target, because Target should be on the streets with us calling for the justice that our people deserve,” she said in a recording of her speech.

“Don’t talk to us about looting. Y’all are the looters. America has looted black people. America looted the Native Americans when they first came here, so looting is what you do. We learned it from you. We learned violence from you,” she continued.

“The violence was what we learned from you. So if you want us to do better, then, damn it, you do better.”

Her hot-headed comments started spreading like wildfire on social media over the weekend.

Mallory, a former Women’s March leader, didn’t land an official job with the Mamdani administration.

Still, her controversial remarks are among the latest to resurface from advisors or aides linked to the Democratic Socialist mayor.

Catherine Almonte Da Costa abruptly resigned last month soon after she was appointed as the city’s next director of appointments after newly unearthed social media posts revealed a series of antisemitic comments — including her rants about “money hungry Jews” and defunding NYPD “piggies.”

Mamdani’s radical new tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, recently came under fire, too, for previously blasting homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy.”

Weaver also faced backlash for whining about gentrification in her Brooklyn neighborhood – despite being a white middle-class transplant who attended a pricey private liberal arts college.