Her view on cops is something however image excellent.
Kara McCurdy, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s director of pictures, has a protracted historical past of publicly ranting about her disdain for police — and even her need to beat some up.
“Isn’t it f—-d up that we are able to’t throw punches on the police,” the socialist shutterbug wrote on X in Could 2020.
In a since-deleted Sept. 20, 2023 submit, tagged to the 114th Precinct in Astoria, McCurdy complained about encountering two NYPD squad vehicles and wrote, “Get f—-d u items of s–t,” referring to officers she claimed tried to “nook” her automobile within the rain after she honked at them for pulling out in entrance of her.
In what seems to be a follow-up message two minutes later at 4:44 am, she ripped: “Actually want nothing however the absolute worst issues conceivable for f–ing pigs who f-k round with the security of me [and] my neighbors in ALREADY DANGEROUS SITUATIONS I hope u all rot.”
McCurdy, a 32-year-old Queens resident, describes herself as a “documentary photographer” whose work is “rooted within the perception that the intimate is inherently political.”
She first met Mamdani in 2019 throughout a marketing campaign celebration for socialist Councilwoman Tiffany Caban, throughout Caban’s failed Queens district legal professional race, she informed Self-importance Truthful.
Just a few months later, the Savannah School of Artwork and Design graduate volunteered to assist Mamdani’s 2020 state Meeting marketing campaign and has been his marketing campaign photographer since — incomes $36,200 taking pictures final yr’s mayoral race and Hizzoner’s transition to Metropolis Corridor, information present.
The Mayor’s Workplace refused to say what McCurdy earns as director of pictures.
Critics say McCurdy’s hiring is the most recent instance of the soft-on-crime mayor’s lack of respect for the NYPD.
“Our police pressure is already feeling demoralized and disrespected, and now there’s an avowed and open cop hater cavorting round Gracie Mansion with the Mamdanis,” stated Councilman Phil Wong (D-Queens) “As they are saying, present me who your mates are, and I’ll let you know who you’re, and this mayor is definitely displaying us who he’s.”
McCurdy — who’s friends with Mamdani’s spouse Rama Duwaji — photographed and documented the primary couple’s nuptials final yr.
Duwaji is already below hearth for her personal on-line antics — equivalent to liking a collection of anti-Israel social media posts, together with one claiming Hamas’ rapes of Israelis through the Oct. 7, 2023 terror assault had been a “mass hoax.”
McCurdy’s antipolice rhetoric stretches again to a minimum of June 2012 when she posted “freaking hate cops” with out clarification.
She’s additionally gone out of her technique to slam NYPD cops on X — even after they’ve lower her some slack.
“I virtually ran over a girl and the cop stated, ‘pls cease at cease indicators’ like???? That is my third encounter with cops inside the month, they usually’ve all been stupidly good to me???? ACAB til I die child,” she wrote June 4, 2020, referring to the acronym “All Cops are Bastards,” a rallying cry for the “Defund the Police” motion.
Six days later, McCurdy photographed a younger woman she was babysitting standing, together with her proper fist raised, atop a park bench with “FTP” – an acronym for the protest phrase “F—okay The Police” — spraypainted on it. The shutterbug posted the picture on X, together with the caption: “You like to see it.”
Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) puzzled what sort of message McCurdy’s hiring sends to the NYPD.
“The mayor, who is meant to be main the division, trusted this girl sufficient to have her take his wedding ceremony footage and introduced her with him into the halls of presidency, all whereas she has a historical past of spouting off on social media about her need to punch cops and calling law enforcement officials pigs,” she stated. “That is repugnant.”
The Mayor’s Workplace and McCurdy didn’t return messages.
