4t SABOTAGE ON THE BALLOT: Linda Sarsour Vows to Force Zohran Mamdani to Gut NYPD’s Anti-Terror Unit If He Wins — A Direct Threat to New York’s Safety
The livestream was meant to rally the faithful. Instead, Linda Sarsour just handed New Yorkers a chilling confession.
Saturday night, November 2, 2025. Instagram Live. 14,000 viewers. The Palestinian-American activist—co-founder of the Women’s March, mentor to the Squad, and a woman once banned from Biden’s campaign events for her radical ties—leaned into the camera and issued a veiled ultimatum to mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.
“Voting for Zohran is NOT ‘we vote and let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall,’” she warned, eyes blazing. “Our job as a movement is to hold whoever goes to City Hall accountable.” Then the hammer: if Mamdani wins, he will dismantle the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG)—the elite unit that polices terrorism threats, protests, and riots. “He’s going to shut down the SRG,” Sarsour vowed. “That’s what Zohran has committed to.”
The clip vanished hours later—scrubbed from her account—but not before it detonated across X. By sunrise Sunday, #SarsourPuppetMaster trended in New York. Mothers in Queens forwarded it to PTA chats. Synagogue listservs in Brooklyn exploded. Cops in the Bronx forwarded it to their unions with three simple words: “We’re next.”
This is no idle threat. The SRG is the NYPD’s last rapid-response shield. Formed after 9/11, its 500 officers train with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. They’ve thwarted three lone-wolf plots since 2023 alone—one involving a pressure-cooker bomb at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Dismantle it, and the city’s counter-terror spine snaps.
Sarsour knows the stakes. She’s been Mamdani’s shadow since 2017, canvassing doors in Astoria, funneling donors through her Muslim Democratic Club. Campaign filings show $100,000 from the Unity & Justice Fund—a PAC tied to CAIR, the Hamas-linked group the Justice Department named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing case. At CAIR’s October conference, Sarsour bragged: “Once November 4th comes, I’ll tell the real story—our Muslim-American community made this happen.”
Mamdani’s playbook is already written. Keep Commissioner Jessica Tisch—but only if she obeys. “The commissioner works for the mayor,” Sarsour sneered. “If Zohran says ‘shut down SRG,’ Tisch has to do it.” Tisch, a data-driven moderate, has quietly warned City Hall insiders: “I won’t preside over a gutted NYPD.” If Mamdani forces her hand, she walks—triggering a brain-drain exodus that could hollow out One Police Plaza overnight.
The backlash is visceral. NYPD unions pledged $2 million to an anti-Mamdani super-PAC. Jewish groups in Borough Park printed flyers: “SRG saved our synagogues—Sarsour wants them defenseless.” Even moderate Muslims in Bay Ridge recoiled. One imam texted me: “She doesn’t speak for us. We remember 9/11 too.”
Election Day looms. Polls show Mamdani up 8 points. Early voting lines snake around blocks in Harlem and Jackson Heights—his base. But in Staten Island and Howard Beach, turnout is surging the other way. One retired detective told me, voice cracking: “I buried brothers on 9/11. If SRG dies, their sacrifice dies with it.”
Sarsour ended her livestream with a smile: “We’re not going anywhere.”
She’s right. She’ll be outside City Hall—megaphone in hand, leash on the mayor.
New Yorkers have 48 hours to decide: A mayor who answers to 8.3 million citizens— or one who answers to Linda Sarsour.
The SRG’s fate hangs in the balance. So does the city’s soul.
