‘Freaking hate cops’: Mamdani’s images director has lengthy historical past of anti-NYPD rants

Her view on cops is something however image excellent.

Kara McCurdy, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s director of images, has an extended 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 can’t throw punches at the police,” the socialist shutterbug wrote on X in May 2020.

In a since-deleted Sept. 20, 2023 put up, tagged to the 114th Precinct in Astoria, McCurdy complained about encountering two NYPD squad vehicles and wrote, “Get f—-d u pieces of s–t,” referring to officers she claimed tried to “corner” 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: “Truly wish nothing but the absolute worst things imaginable for f–ing pigs who f-k around with the safety 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 in the belief that the intimate is inherently political.”

She first met Mamdani in 2019 throughout a marketing campaign social gathering for socialist Councilwoman Tiffany Caban, throughout Caban’s failed Queens district lawyer race, she instructed Vanity Fair.

A couple of months later, the Savannah College of Art and Design graduate volunteered to assist Mamdani’s 2020 state Assembly marketing campaign and has been his marketing campaign photographer since — incomes $36,200 taking pictures final 12 months’s mayoral race and Hizzoner’s transition to City Hall, data present.

The Mayor’s Office refused to say what McCurdy earns as director of images.

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 force is already feeling demoralized and disrespected, and now there’s an avowed and open cop hater cavorting around Gracie Mansion with the Mamdanis,” mentioned Councilman Phil Wong (D-Queens) “As they say, show me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are, and this mayor is certainly showing us who he is.”

McCurdy — who’s buddies with Mamdani’s spouse Rama Duwaji — photographed and documented the primary couple’s nuptials final 12 months.

Duwaji is already beneath 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 throughout the Oct. 7, 2023 terror assault had been a “mass hoax.”

McCurdy’s antipolice rhetoric stretches again to no less than June 2012 when she posted “freaking hate cops” with out rationalization.

She’s additionally gone out of her method to slam NYPD cops on X — even after they’ve lower her some slack.

“I almost ran over a woman and the cop said, ‘pls stop at stop signs’ like???? This is my third encounter with cops within the month, and they’ve all been stupidly nice to me???? ACAB til I die baby,” 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 lady she was babysitting standing, together with her proper fist raised, atop a park bench with “FTP” – an acronym for the protest phrase “F—k The Police” — spraypainted on it. The shutterbug posted the photograph on X, together with the caption: “You love to see it.”

Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) questioned what sort of message McCurdy’s hiring sends to the NYPD.

“The mayor, who is supposed to be leading the department, trusted this woman enough to have her take his wedding pictures and brought her with him into the halls of government, all while she has a history of spouting off on social media about her desire to punch cops and calling police officers pigs,” she mentioned. “This is repugnant.”

The Mayor’s Office and McCurdy didn’t return messages.