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Brave NYPD officer killed in Midtown shooting identified as Didarul Islam — 4-year force veteran with a family
NY Post ^ | July 28, 2025 | Tina Moore, David Propper

Posted on 07/28/2025 9:39:06 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

The NYPD officer shot and killed by a deranged gunman inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday was identified as a “hero” dad and nearly four-year department veteran – whose wife is about to give birth to their third child, officials and sources said.

Married father-of-two Didarul Islam, 36, was remembered as a dedicated family man who loved putting on the uniform after he was senselessly murdered by 27-year-old Shane Tamura inside 345 Park Avenue, heartbroken city leaders said during a press conference.

“He was doing what he does best and all members of the police department carry out, he was saving lives,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a late Monday press conference.

“He was protecting New Yorkers. He’s an immigrant from Bangladesh, and he loved this city, and everyone we spoke with stated he was a person of faith and a person that believed in God and believed in living out the life of a godly person.”

Islam’s wife was eight-months pregnant and the couple had two young boys, according to officials and sources.

Islam had been on the force since December 2021 and worked out of the 47th precinct in the Bronx.

He was off-duty Monday working as security for Rudin Management Company in the building, but was in NYPD uniform, sources said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Society
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1 posted on 07/28/2025 9:39:06 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

pttt


2 posted on 07/28/2025 9:40:20 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

RIP officer


3 posted on 07/28/2025 9:45:52 PM PDT by dforest
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Ban guns and put up more cameras!!!!!


4 posted on 07/28/2025 9:53:46 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: dforest

Indeed. 😔 Prayers for his loved ones especially his wife, and all those directly impacted today.


5 posted on 07/28/2025 10:33:32 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

What are the odds that, as we approach a NYC mayoral election with a Muslim frontrunner, that a Muslim NYPD officer (only 1.2% of NYPD officers are Muslim) — with the name “Islam”, no less - is targeted and killed by a gunman....in the offices of the globalist powerhouse Blackstone?


6 posted on 07/28/2025 10:34:07 PM PDT by montag813
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Given that Bangladesh is 90% Muslim, and his last name is "Islam", I will take a wild guess that he was a Muslim.

So regardless of my opinions regarding Islam in general, I will speak well of this officer, and may he Rest In Peace, per the famous words of Winston Churchill:

"Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but..."
Clearly this good man was one of those individuals. I offer prayers for his 8-months pregnant wife and two young sons, who have lost a father and husband.
7 posted on 07/28/2025 10:37:16 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: montag813

Strangely enough.... my mind went there while reading the title.... hmmmm.... weird.


8 posted on 07/28/2025 10:43:08 PM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: LastDayz
Also, he shot himself...on the 33rd floor.
9 posted on 07/28/2025 10:50:53 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813
What are the odds that, as we approach a NYC mayoral election with a Muslim frontrunner, that a Muslim NYPD officer (only 1.2% of NYPD officers are Muslim)

And the NYPD Commissioner is Jessica Tisch, a Jewish woman who often wears a prominent Star of David around her neck. On X, actress Justine Bateman aptly highlighted Tisch’s poignant tribute to Officer Islam at the press conference earlier.

The errors of Zohran’s socialist promises and the warped, woke value system of the Left at large is what needs to be called out most. This would be the case if it were AOC or anyone else running in his stead!

10 posted on 07/28/2025 10:51:48 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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To: dayglored

And the officer’s own parents lost their only son according to a newscast I just watched.

When I visit NYC, some of my favorite conversations are with cab drivers. They come from countries all over and I can feel God tugging at my heart to veer the conversation in a spiritual direction when possible. Even if it’s not meant to get TOO deep, it’s always a blessing to hear people’s stories, and where they stand with regard to faith — and to plant a seed if given the moment.


11 posted on 07/28/2025 11:03:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdami addresses Midtown mass shooting from Uganda compound

https://nypost.com/2025/07/28/us-news/nyc-mayoral-frontrunner-zohran-mamdami-addresses-midtown-mass-shooting-from-uganda-compound/


12 posted on 07/28/2025 11:59:12 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I like Jimmy Faila!😀


13 posted on 07/29/2025 1:10:21 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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>>>Reports of the shooting at 345 Park Avenue started coming in at around 6:28 p.m.
The shooter, Shane Tamura, 27, was seen on surveillance footage getting out of a double parked black BMW between 51st and 52nd Street, with an M4 rifle.
He then walks towards the skyscraper, enters the lobby and turns right, where he shot police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead.<<<

I’m not trying to be hateful, but how was he protecting New Yorker’s exactly? He got gunned down like every other victim but is being hailed as a hero, just because he happens to be a cop. Who was off duty btw. I just don’t appreciate the 4 other victims being treated like they don’t matter.

Unless the story somehow changes which is possible, he is just another unfortunate victim.


14 posted on 07/29/2025 1:51:34 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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The victim was using his privilege of carrying a firearm, bestowed upon him as an off-duty New York City police officer working as a security guard.

This right to keep and bear arms is denied to regular New York City citizens, and that denial of rights is enforced by officers of the New York City police department.

The shooter knew he'd face few armed civilians in New York City... and so did the off-duty cop.

15 posted on 07/29/2025 4:24:32 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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...the pictures of the now-deceased shooter’s rifle seem to be a bit blurry, but has it been identified...? a much-hated AR15 or something else...? just waiting for more strident calls for “gun control”.......3.....2......1.........


16 posted on 07/29/2025 5:34:11 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: montag813

Obviously, the CNN answer is that assault rifles are islamophobic. Ban them all.


17 posted on 07/29/2025 5:40:13 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: Lil Flower

I don’t get it either, it seems to be based on ‘immigrant’, ‘Muslim’, and he is an ‘immigrant Muslim cop’.

It enables them to write stories like this about his Mosque and his Muslim immigrant struggles.
“At Slain Officer’s Home, His Bangladeshi Community Mourns Into the Night
Didarul Islam had a hard-won house, a job that brought respect and the esteem of his neighbors. “He said serve the community and you’ll do fine,” a friend said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/nyc-shooting-police-officer-killed-didarul-islam.html


“He walks towards the skyscraper, enters the lobby and turns right, where he shoots police officer Didarul Islam, 36, dead.
Tamura guns down a woman cowering behind a pillar in the lobby as he sprays more bullets and walks toward the elevator bank — where he shoots dead a security guard crouching at his desk.”


18 posted on 07/29/2025 5:43:17 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They kept saying “female officer”. Reporting is like chinese telephone now.


19 posted on 07/29/2025 6:13:41 AM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

In his 10 pm EDT presser, Mayor Adams waited about 10 seconds to blame “gun violence” and that guns were the problem. He knew then it wasn’t the gun, it was mental illness but he can’t say that.


20 posted on 07/29/2025 6:21:36 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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