New York mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was met with jeers and yelling during his trip to Staten Island on Wednesday, according to recordings and international media reports.
"You f***** Jew-hater, you piece of s***," well-known Staten Island-based artist Scott LoBaido shouted at him in a local diner.
LaBaido told the New York Post he received three summonses for disorderly conduct, a sound violation, and foul language.
“I’ll have to plead guilty on that one,” he said regarding the third violation. “Foul language is my middle name.”
While swarming a Mediterranean restaurant attended by Mamdani, LoBaido reportedly yelled, “Let me tell you something, f***bag, you are not welcome on this f****** island.
“You hate this f****** country, you hate this f****** island.”
Mamdani’s trip to Staten Island was described as an “anti-Trump tour” by local media.
Mamdani says he's saddened that people told him to go back where he came from
Mamdani told the site that it was both saddening and unsurprising that people were telling him to “go back to where” he came from and claimed that such rhetoric was what “characterizes President Trump’s politics.”
Mamdani has been a vocal critic of his competitor’s connections with the US president, stating during a recent radio interview: “The fact is that the president has three candidates in this race - one that he’s directly been in touch with, another that he bailed out of legal trouble and now functionally controls, and the final one literally being a member of the same Republican Party.”
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary to Mamdani, claimed “Nobody has fought with Trump more than I have,” according to the New York Times.