Newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani finds himself in hot water just days into his tenure over a sluggish response to two fatal police-involved shootings in New York City on January 8, 2026.
On that day, two separate incidents unfolded—first at New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn just before 5:30 p.m., where officers shot and killed Michael Lynch, a 62-year-old former NYPD officer who had barricaded himself with hostages, and later at 11:00 p.m. in Manhattan’s West Village, where Dmitry Zass, 37, was killed by police during a road rage confrontation involving an imitation firearm.
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