A volunteer for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign isn’t shy about showcasing his hatred for New York’s Finest.
Failed Democratic Assembly candidate Julien Segura posted an offensive image, showing him flipping off 11 NYPD officers on Sept. 26, outside the Federal Plaza Immigration Court in Lower Manhattan, where police arrested 15 anti-ICE demonstrators.
The image was accompanied by audio from N.W.A.’s 1988 track “F–k Tha Police,” and the caption read, “All my homies hate the SRG” — short for “strategic response group,” a specialized team of NYPD officers who police protests.
Julien Segura accused the officers of abusing their power.Julien Segura/Facebook
Segura, 28, claims on X to be a “local political organizer and activist who has spent his career committed to electing strong young leaders in New York.”
He began supporting Mamdani in May, when he encouraged his social media followers to list Mamdani as one of their top choices in the recent mayoral primary.
He also handed out Mamdani fliers during the leadup to the Democratic primary, and knocked on doors for him, sources said.
He threw his support behind Zohran Mamdani in May.seguraforny/Instagram
Last year, Segura ran for Manhattan’s 71st Assembly District to represent Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood, but was defeated by incumbent Assemblyman Alfred Taylor in the Democratic primary.
Daniel Kurzyna, Chief of Staff for Councilman Bob Holden (D-Maspeth), blasted Segura as “a grifter” who “has no clue what he’s doing.”
Added Kurzyna: “That photo of him flipping off the police tells you everything about his character and judgment. Even in a city full of second-rate operatives, he sets a new low in irrelevance and incompetence, and anyone who hires or has hired this loser needs to rethink their lives.”
Segura is not a member of Mamdani’s staff, according to city Campaign Finance Board records.
Segura ran for an assembly seat last year, but lost the election.Julien Segura for New York State Assembly/ Facebook
On LinkedIn, Segura cites his experience as a political strategist who has managed several campaigns in New York City and Georgia, where he was a a team lead for the Care in Action PAC, which supported Kamala Harris’ failed 2024 presidential campaign.
Segura showed no remorse Friday, telling The Post the officers were to blame for his actions.
“I have inherent respect for anyone entering public service until they abuse their authority,” Segura said. “Allowing and abetting federal overreach is something that I have disdain for.”
Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Imagine you’re at a coffee shop, desperate for your morning caffeine fix.
But the line? It’s crawling at a snail’s pace. With every agonizing second that drags by, your patience wears thinner and the urge to storm behind the counter and pour your own cup grows stronger.
But experts say that aggravating wait might actually be doing you a favor — even if it feels unbearable.
Waiting can help improve your self-control, experts say.globalmoments – stock.adobe.com
“Research shows that it can be beneficial as it improves self-control,” according to Dr. Ayse Burcin Baskurt, a senior lecturer in applied positive psychology at the University of East London.
“Self-control has broad importance — whether that’s in school or the workplace — because of its implications for learning, decision-making, performance, social relationships and wellbeing,” she explains.
Without self-control, our future ambitions often get steamrolled by short-term urges.
Giving in can feel satisfying in the moment, whether it’s diving headfirst into a tub of ice cream during a diet or firing off a snarky retort in the heat of an argument.
But when those impulsive decisions go unchecked, they can take a toll on your health, strain your relationships and make everyday life more difficult to manage.
Waiting, Baskurt explains, creates space by giving you a crucial pause to regulate emotions, resist temptations and stay focused on your long-term goals.
Practicing mindfulness and gratitude can help make waiting feel less aggrevating.Maria Vitkovska – stock.adobe.com
And the benefits quickly add up. Research shows that people who have better self-control tend to have healthier relationships, stronger finances and greater career success.
They’re also less likely to face challenges like overeating, addiction, procrastination or impulsive behavior.
While waiting can feel frustrating in the moment, it may actually make the eventual reward even sweeter.
One study found that simply anticipating a reward activates the brain’s pleasure and motivation centers, suggesting that the buildup itself is enjoyable.
Beyond that, experts say that regularly practicing self-control helps build a cognitive reserve, which can protect the brain later in life.
“Recent research suggests that our ability to delay gratification could be a crucial factor in protecting against early onset of Alzheimer’s symptoms and other forms of cognitive decline,” Dr. Bobby Hoffman, an educational psychologist, wrote in Psychology Today.
Waiting and self-control is good for your cognitive health.manassanant – stock.adobe.com
But let’s be real: no matter the perks, waiting is usually a drag.
Studies show that just sitting alone with your thoughts can tank your mood by about 2% every minute.
Just sitting alone with your own thoughts has been shown to cause the average person’s mood to drop by about 2% per minute.
Still, don’t give up just yet. Baskurt has four simple tips to help you turn that agonizing wait into something actually worthwhile.
First up: savor the moment.
“Visualizing the concert, the trip or any event that you long for makes waiting less of an obstacle and more of an extension of the experience,” she wrote.
Next: practice gratitude.
Instead of stewing in frustration or worry, Baskurt recommends pausing to reflect on what you’re thankful for. It shifts the wait into a moment of appreciation, she explains.
You should also try flipping your mindset.
Rather than seeing a wait as a hassle, treat the downtime as a chance to rest, pause or reflect, Baskurt advises.
“When we connect waiting to a sense of purpose, waiting gains direction and meaning,” she wrote.
Finally, master the art of mindfulness.
“Intentionally noticing what’s going on in you and around you can turn an annoying circumstance into a mini check-in and chance to re-charge,” Baskurt explains.
“This small practice may even help to improve your wellbeing by helping you to relax and regulate emotions,” she added.
New York is losing population, losing jobs and losing ground to the rest of the country — and its leaders just don’t seem to care.
Start with last week’s news that banking giant JPMorgan Chase now employs more workers in Texas than in New York City; indeed the Lone Star State now has more bank employees than Gotham, period.
Partnership for New York City chief Kathy Wylde is badly understating things when she calls this news “scary.”
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Plenty of other finance jobs have flown to Florida, North Carolina and other states; the day grows ever closer when the Big Apple, once the unrivaled financial services capital of America and the world, will become a finance backwater.
The long trend predates COVID and even 9/11; ever since the early 1960s, the city and state have been piling on new taxes, among a host of other sins of omission and commission that make New York City ever-less affordable and livable.
Even the gains of the Giuliani and Bloomberg years only slowed Gotham’s loss of ground relative to other parts of the nation.
And now the decline is starting to accelerate again: The city’s financial-services sector shrank by 8,400 jobs from January through August of this year, after adding 6,400 in the same time period in 2024.
Despite that, the industry is by far the most crucial single part of the entire tri-state economy; easily the top source of tax revenue for both the city and state.
Indeed, local government is more dependent on Wall Street than ever — because other industries have already fled more completely.
Consider: 128 Fortune 500 firms had their headquarters in New York in 1965; today it’s down to about 50 — Texas beats us with 54, and even Florida has 22.
Yet the state government is ever-more hostile to business of all kinds, and the city’s on the verge of making a socialist its next mayor.
Two years back, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange to promote an index that tracks the stocks of Texas companies; visiting with The Post Editorial Board on that trip, he celebrated his state’s zero personal and corporate income-tax rates, as well as its “reasonable and predictable” regulatory environment.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response to Gov. Abbott’s Wall Street foray? “Let me be clear: I will not be taking advice from Greg Abbott,” she huffed.
OK: Hochul actually said that in response to Abbott’s advice on dealing with the migrant crisis at the time . . . but her actions then and since show every bit as much contempt for the Texas gov’s economic-development approach.
For all her talk about making the Empire State more business-friendly, she’s barely been able to fend off the Legislature’s demands for major tax hikes — demands sure to grow as the state faces huge budget holes starting next year.
Yet the simply truth is that New York state needs to start slashing tax rates to remain competitive, whatever the cuts in state spending that requires.
And it needs more than the hesitant retreat Hochul’s so far hinted at from its impossible “climate” ambitions: Give up on the magical thinking about windmills and solar farms; start embracing natural gas — not just new pipelines and new residential and commercial hookups, but fracking too.
Heck, Hochul just sent another terrible signal by endorsing Zohran Mamdani — and thereby making it harder to resist his socialist agenda in the likely event he becomes the next mayor.
Defeating him in November would be a great start on putting New York back on the path of business-friendly growth; if the state doesn’t start reversing course soon, it won’t be long before the slow exodus becomes a stampede for the exits.
U.S. Border Patrol agents shot an armed woman in Chicago Saturday after an angry mob tried to attack the law enforcement officers.
The group of agents were conducting their routine patrol near 39th Place and South Kedzie Avenue in the city’s South Side “when they were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
“The officers exited their trapped vehicle, when a suspect tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively,” according to DHS, which called the incident “an evolving situation” and noted FBI agents were currently on the scene.
Border Patrol Federal Agents and police keep watch as people protest outside an ICE facility in Chicago on October 3, 2025.REUTERS
The suspect, who is a U.S. citizen, was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.
The gun-toting woman was already known to the federal agency for allegedly publicly identifying agents and encouraging people to attack them, according to McLaughlin.
“The armed woman was named in a CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online ‘Hey to all my gang let’s f–k those mother f–kers up, don’t let them take anyone,’” McLaughlin wrote on X.
More federal agents were set to be deployed because of the incident, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X.
“Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked—rammed and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon.I am deploying more special operations to control the scene. Reinforcements are on their way,” she wrote.
“If you see a law enforcement officer today, thank them,” Noem added.
The armed woman, who was not immediately identified, drove herself to the hospital after the shooting “to get care for her wounds,” McLaughlin added.
Demonstrators confront police during a protest outside an immigrant processing and detention center in Broadview, Illinois on October 3, 2025.Getty Images
A spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department told the Chicago Sun-Times the woman was later found and taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
The fire department could not immediately be reached for comment.
The time and location of the shooting weren’t immediately clear.
“Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the attack,” wrote McLaughlin, who then ripped the lefty Illinois governor for failing to help with the fallout of the gunfire.
“Unfortunately, [Gov.] JB Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a crowd growing and we are deploying special operations to control [it],” McLaughlin said.
A mob had gathered in the area to protest the shooting, and were met with tear gas deployed by the federal agents, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The latest violence comes after the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement last month launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” an initiative to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets,” the department announced in an X post.
Since then, angry crowds of protestors have reportedly mobbed the ICE processing center in the same area where the shooting occurred.
More than a dozen demonstrators were seen being arrested in the streets near the facility on Friday, Fox News reported.
The protesters have increasingly using vehicles to attack ICE agents in the Chicago area, according to DHS, which said agents were targeted in two such attacks one day earlier this week.
On Wednesday, “criminal illegal aliens weaponized their vehicles in deliberate attempts to ram and injure officers carrying out their sworn duty to uphold our nation’s immigration laws” during incidents in Bensenville, Ill. and another in Norridge, Ill. the department said, noting no members of law enforcement died from the attacks.
“This is exactly what happens when Governor Pritzker, [Chicago] Mayor [Brandon] Johnson, and other sanctuary politicians demonize ICE and encourage illegal aliens to resist law enforcement,” McLaughlin said in response to those incidents.
On Saturday, the spokeswoman reiterated that such violence will be met with “consequences.”
“Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” she said.
“The men and women of ICE and CBP are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop. We are praying for our law enforcement and their families,” McLaughlin said.
