A New York City mayoral candidate was caught on camera as he lashed out at U.S. border czar Tom Homan in front of a mob of angry protesters.

Video circulating on social media shows Zohran Kwame Mamdani, an Assembly member for District 36, screaming at Homan while Homan walked down a hallway at the New York state Capitol in Albany Wednesday.

Mamdani and a crowd were speaking out in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student who was arrested Saturday.

“How many more New Yorkers will you detain? How many more New Yorkers without charge? Do you believe in the First Amendment? Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan?” Mamdani, a socialist, repeatedly yells in the footage.

New York’s state troopers were seen intervening, with at least a few stepping in between Mamdani and Homan. According to Fox News, troopers removed Mamdani, but didn’t arrest him or any other protesters.

On Thursday, Jewish Voice for Peace protesters stormed the lobby of Trump Tower demanding the release of Khalil. Protesters were seen carrying banners and wearing red shirts reading “Jews say stop arming Israel,” chanted “Bring Mahmoud home now!”

NYPD Chief John Chell said officers arrested 98 people at the protest on various charges including trespassing, obstruction and resisting arrest.

In Albany on Wednesday, Homan didn’t appear bothered by all the hollering. He munched on an apple and walked by Mamdani and the protesters as they continued to yell at him.

Mamdani took to social media to defend his actions.

“Today, I confronted ‘border czar’ Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump’s bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil,” he wrote on X.

In a previous post, he described Khalil’s arrest as a “blatant assault on the First Amendment.”

“The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil — a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant — is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump,” Mamdani wrote. “He must be released now.”

Mamdani is running for New York City mayor. He’s hoping to oust Mayor Eric Adams.

As for Khalil, a lawyer for the 30-year-old confirmed his client sent an email to the school’s president the night before he was arrested, saying he was in fear for his life and well-being.

The attorney, Ramzi Kassem, on Wednesday said Khalil also questioned why the college continues to be silent about the case as it makes headlines across the nation.

Kassem said Khalil told the president he was “worried” he was going to be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and felt “unprotected” by the college.

“I think his email raises an important question,” Kassem told reporters. “This is a university that has spent the better part of the last year talking about its duty to protect students and keep them safe. But in a scenario where numerous students are being approached by ICE on Columbia’s campus and one Columbia student — Mahmoud Khalil — has been effectively disappeared by U.S. government agents, again, on Columbia’s property. The university has been remarkably absent and silent.”

Khalil’s legal team also asked a judge to move his client’s case out of New York to New Jersey or Louisiana. He has been held in both states as the Trump administration continues its efforts to deport him due to his participation in pro-Palestinian protests at the school.

Khalil, who has a green card, is being held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana.

A judge on Monday blocked efforts to deport Khalil.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said while some people might view Khalil as a pro-Palestinian supporter, he’s actually a violent anti-Israel activist who supports Hamas. She said President Donald Trump and his administration see him as a terrorist sympathizer.

“Mahmoud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of coming to this country to study at one of our nation’s finest universities and colleges and he took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege, by siding with terrorists — Hamas terrorists who killed innocent men, women and children,” Leavitt told reporters Tuesday during her weekly news briefing.

Trump said Khalil’s arrest marked the first of many to come.

“We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.”

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