Zohran Mamdani might point to Sunday morning’s events in Flatbush as exactly what he’s thinking of when he says he’ll order the NYPD not to respond to most domestic-violence calls, sending social workers instead: After all, the subject of the complaint wound up shot dead by responding officers.
Except that it turned out the guy was carrying , though his victim didn’t know when she rang 911 for help as an ex she’d gotten a protection order against was banging on her door.
She’d plainly told him the police were coming, as he was on his way out of the building, gun in hand, when six officers showed at the scene.
They called on him to drop the weapon; he fled instead.
The cops pursued, shouting about a dozen times for him to disarm, before one of them shot to bring him down; they wou