Lisa Stranger

2025-09-19 18:58:48

Texas man charged with making terroristic threats against Zohran Mamdani - Gothamist

Polls show Mamdani leading by double digits over Mayor Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, with less than two months until the election.

During the final stretch of the race, a flier for a pro-Cuomo PAC surfaced showing a manipulated photo of Mamdani with his beard lengthened and darkened. Mamdani called the image “blatant Islamophobia.” A spokesperson for the PAC said the flier was never sent.

https://gothamist.com/news/texas-man-charged-with-making-terroristic-threats-against-zohran-mamdani

Texas man charged with making terroristic threats against Zohran Mamdani

The man was arrested Sept. 11 in Plano, Texas, by the NYPD's hate crimes task force.

^{Arun Venugopal (Gothamist)}