Anti-ICE chaos in Lower Manhattan is a taste of what's to come if Mamdani & feds can't cooperate

If Mamdani can't work out a responsible plan to let federal agents to do their job, the ugliness will get a lot worse. MediaPunch / BACKGRID

If the feds and the Mamdani City Hall can’t come to some reliable understanding, Saturday’s chaos in Lower Manhattan will be just a taste of rising disorder that New York City really doesn’t need.

The metro area is full of “professional protesters” eager to wreak havoc in the name of the lefty cause of the week, and also full of politicians eager to egg on the goons; can Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and the top local Homeland Security officials conspire to keep the peace anyway?

Activists somehow got word of a planned ICE action Saturday, and gathered to block the feds from carrying out a lawful enforcement opera