“My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the international criminal court’s arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here,” Mamdani said. “It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.
https://nitter.net/NYCMayor/status/2079718073058091261#m
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/21/mamdani-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-authority
Legalities aside, the NYPD will almost certainly not “just” do it. Getting the cops to arrest a sitting head of state that many are probably sympathetic to, in an action that would probably require getting in a gunfight with his security, is what’s most challenging here.
I’m a little surprised at people in this thread implying a level of political leverage over the NYPD that he obviously doesn’t have yet. Mamdani is clearly having to tip-toe around this semi-independent paramilitary operating in the city.
Not remotely surprising. We are in /c/electoralism after all.
I was making a joke hence ‘the critical support for police brutality’ in there. As a serious statement, yeah, the NYPD is a legal gang that needs to be purged somehow.