NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani appears on ABC’s “This Week” on June 28. Credit: ABC Screenshot

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just posted a sad message on Twitter/X mourning the death of a career criminal who died at Rikers Island while awaiting trial for the murder of an innocent man at a laundromat in 2024.

Why is he always on the side of the criminals? Where is the sympathy for the victims?

Imagine being the family of the victim in this case and seeing the mayor cry about the death of the killer.

The New York Post reports:

Mamdani posts emotional message mourning accused knife-wielding killer —and is slammed by victim’s family

Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned an accused career criminal killer who died on Rikers Island this week — and the family of the victim slain in the sick, unprovoked attack is now livid, The Post has learned.

Hizzoner said on X that he was “deeply saddened” by the in-custody death — the seventh so far this year at the troubled jail complex — adding that, “my thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.”

The inmate was identified as 41-year-old Clarence Woodward, an ex-con with nearly 30 arrests on his rap sheet, who was found unresponsive in his cell shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday while awaiting trial for murder in the gruesome 2024 attack at a Bronx laundromat.

To the family of victim Jose Miranda, the mayor’s statement was “a slap in the face.”

“It’s terrible,” his grieving mother, Marisol Miranda, told The Post on Thursday, adding, “That’s not fair. That’s not fair at all.”

This is the full text of Mamdani’s tweet, which you can see below:

I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.

We do not yet know the cause of death, but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction and its oversight partners will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.

Our administration is fully committed to the critical work of creating better conditions in our city’s jail system and closing Rikers Island as quickly as possible.

I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.

We do not yet know the cause of death, but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on…

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) August 25, 2026

It’s unreal.

A father of two was hacked to death with a meat cleaver after his killer was repeatedly paroled.

And you think the real villain is the jail?

— Mehek Cooke (@MehekCooke) August 27, 2026

The mayor is in deep mourning of a man that murdered a laundromat employee with a meat clever and had 28 prior arrests. Talk about priorities. https://t.co/IhUSOgEXg9

— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) August 26, 2026

Unreal. The guy he’s mourning was charged with murdering a shop owner with a meat cleaver in an unprovoked attack. https://t.co/Kc8223CQMZ

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 26, 2026

What is WRONG with him?

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