Enough with the jokes Mamdani, telling ‘kids’ it’s disgraceful to attack cops is your JOB

“It looks like a snowball fight,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani says of the viral video showing a Washington Square Park crowd — “kids,” he suggests, though they all look adult-sized — throwing mounds of snow at police officers.

Fight? That would be two-way action, but the cops plainly aren’t playing — nor should they be: Even if it were good-willed all around, mock police-civilian combat could easily get out of hand.

Which is why civilians shouldn’t be acting out this way, either.

Not in fun, and not (as seems more the case here) with hostile, or at least contemptuous, intent: They seem to realize the police can’t fight back, and are smugly enjoying the transgression.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is entirely right: “Our NYPD officers put themselves on the line to protect us every day. It is never acceptable to throw anything at a police officer, full stop.”

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch used even stronger language: The snow-throwers’ behavior “is disgraceful, and it is criminal.”

Yet the mayor pointedly declined to call it “criminal,” even if he kinda-sorta condemned it by tut-tutting that officers in the storm were “keeping New Yorkers safe” and everyone should “Treat them with respect.”

Then, oh so cutely: “If anyone’s catching a snowball, it’s me.”

Here’s the thing: It’s his job to draw clear, hard lines here — not to fuzz crucial distinctions.

You don’t play games like this with men and women whose duties involve the use of force, indeed not with any public worker doing their job.

It’s juvenile behavior in the worst sense — the kind of idiocy that can get people hurt, including other civilians the cops should be protecting instead of putting up with this crap.

The mayor needs to remember that he’s the ultimate boss of the city’s police — with a duty to them.

If he doesn’t like that part of the job, tough.

It’s no excuse for talking like an entitled twit.