Mamdani offers job to Muslim migrant cop who resigned after scandal-ridden tenure as Hamtramck police chief

Identity politics and cronyism overrule considerations of competence. Besides, a socialist mayor can exploit chaos to institute as many authoritarian measures as he can get away with instituting.

“Former Hamtramck police chief considers role working for NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani,” Fox 2 Detroit, November 14, 2025:

The former Hamtramck police chief says he has been offered a role by New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in his new administration….

Jamiel Altaheri resigned from his role as Hamtramck’s top cop following a string of allegations and chaos during a tumultuous period for the city over the summer.

Altaheri now tells FOX 2 that the Mamdani administration has contacted him with an offer with the city. The former chief has New York ties, having left a position as the commanding officer of the NYPD’s Office of Equity and Inclusion.

Altaheri declined to provide details to the role he was allegedly offered and the Mamdani Administration has not publicly acknowledged it.

Altaheri is a Muslim immigrant from Yemen and would join the history-making Mamdani administration. Mamdani will be sworn in on Jan. 1 as New York City’s first Muslim mayor and mayor of South Asian descent.

But Altaheri and Hamtramck, are no strangers to controversy. The city itself, is still embroiled in fallout from a contested election in which the mayoral race was decided by 11 votes.

The Hamtramck City Council voted to fire Altaheri along with the city manager and a police special investigator last August after an independent investigation that alleged several misconduct allegations….

The investigation found that Altaheri allegedly destroyed evidence by wiping his city phone, drove his city vehicle while intoxicated, misused his police lights to run red lights, and at one point even handed a loaded gun to a civilian volunteer, allegedly instructing the volunteer to point it at someone’s head….

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