NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Handed Press Passes to Women Who Said a Murder Victim’s Kids Are Better Off Without Him

A father was shot dead on a Manhattan sidewalk and three women just told the world his children are better off for it.

Those three women have official New York City press credentials – issued by the mayor's own office.

And when reporters demanded he pull them, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called it a matter for "good-natured debate."

What They Said Outside the Courthouse

Self-proclaimed "Mangionistas" Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas, and Lena Weissbrot showed up to Luigi Mangione's evidence hearing Monday wearing official New York City press badges.

They were not there to report.

Rojas looked into the cameras: "F— Brian Thompson. I don't give a flying f— he died."

Weissbrot went further.

"His children are better off without him," she said about Thompson's teenage sons. "They need to learn to not be like their dad. And enjoy the blood money, kids."

These are the women Mamdani's office credentialed.

When reporters asked him to pull the passes, he acknowledged the trio shouldn't have received them – then refused to act.

"We will initiate our own process to review these, and what I will say is there is a good-natured debate to be had about where a press pass should extend and where it shouldn't," he told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Queens.

Good-natured debate.

Three women just told the world that a murdered father's children are better off without him – in official city credentials – and Mamdani wants a friendly conversation about journalism standards.

The Permission Structure the Left Built

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC all mouthed condemnations of Brian Thompson's murder.

Then every one of them said insurance companies denying claims is "an act of violence."

That framing has one effect.

It hands millions of people a moral framework in which health insurance executives are killers who deserve what comes to them.

The Mangionistas are what that framework produces.

And Mamdani handed them the city's official stamp of approval.

His decision not to revoke those credentials tells you where he stands – more plainly than anything he's said publicly about Mangione or the murder.

He has no reason to pull the passes because he has no objection to what the fangirls believe.

What Mamdani's Silence Actually Means

Democrats love to say that silence is complicity.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said exactly that this week – about SEC schools that haven't spoken out against Republican redistricting efforts.

Mamdani hasn't been silent.

He's been asked directly, on camera, whether he'll act.

He said no.

Women who publicly cheered the killing of a father and told his teenage sons to enjoy the "blood money" will keep their official New York City press credentials – because the mayor decided that's a matter for good-natured debate.

This is what a socialist running one of America's largest cities actually looks like.

Not breadlines.

Not gulags.

Just a mayor who looks the other way when his allies cheer a killing – and calls it a nuanced conversation about the evolution of media.

No one who voted for Zohran Mamdani should be surprised.

He told them exactly who he was.

Sources:

• Amy Curtis, "Mamdani Won't Revoke the Luigi Mangione Fangirls' Press Passes," Townhall, May 20, 2026.
• "Mamdani Won't Pull Press Passes for Ghoulish Luigi Mangione Fangirls," New York Post, May 19, 2026.
• "Mamdani's Office Draws Outrage After Press Credentials Given to Luigi Mangione Supporters," Fox News, May 19, 2026.
• "Bloodthirsty Luigi Mangione Fangirls Unapologetically Celebrate CEO's Assassination," New York Post, May 18, 2026.