Socialist Zohran Mamdani's former staffers include woman who accosted NYPD, man who solicited minor for sex

It has been revealed that socialist Zohran Mamdani's campaign staff has included a young woman who accosted a police officer in New York City as well as a male staffer who solicited sex from a minor.

Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik interned over the summer last year, according to a post from documenting Jew Hatred. Malik is seen yelling in the faces of police officers in New York, calling the police pigs, and yelled, "We read the badges of the pigs. So to the Rahman's and the Mahammad's. To the Ali's and the Abdullah's. To the Rafid's. To the pigs. Who can call themselves by the name of Islam. To the Muhammad's. Put some respect on that name!"

She yelled as a crowd of protesters chanted after her in the video and repeatedly yelled in the face of a police officer who then stepped out of the police line.

The other staffer, Matthew Thomas, was hired by Mamdani as his communications director during his 2020 campaign for assembly. In 2015, Thomas had pleaded guilty to second-degree conspiracy, and went to jail over soliciting a minor for sex. He was able to avoid changes of rape and served three months in jail for the offense.

Thomas had solicited a 16-year-old to have a gay threesome with him as well as Daniel Simmons, who is the former Deputy Attorney General in Delaware, per the New York Post. Thomas was paid $22,000 for his time acting as the socialist's director of communications.

“I didn’t know about this before I hired him,” Mamdani told the outlet last year. When Thomas committed the crime, he was known as Matthew Coogan, however, he legally changed his name in 2017 to Matthew Thomas.