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Mamdani cries at a murderer’s death — will he ever care about crime victims?

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Giving damning proof of the left’s twisted priorities, Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week mourned the death of a Rikers inmate awaiting trial for a brutal murder — with nary a thought for Clarence Woodward’s victim, or his survivors.

Progressives never miss a chance to sympathize with criminals; they see the only true crime to be putting people behind bars instead of addressing the “root causes” of social dysfunction.

“I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning,” Mamdani tweeted Tuesday, also extending his sympathy to Woodward’s “family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.”

Corrections Commissioner Stanley Richards likewise bemoaned the “tragedy.”

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