In New York City, there’s been a gigantic freeze, a freeze that has not only beset New York City but also the rest of the East Coast.

In Washington Square Park, a group of people started hurling snowballs at several NYPD officers responding to a call. Not playfully either. They were actually trying to hurt them. They hurled objects at the police officers.

Every one of these individuals should be identified, arrested, and sent to jail — every single one of them. Hurling objects at police officers, assaulting police officers, mobs of people, some of them masked, trying to assault police officers — this is 1970s-style disorder in New York City.

And yes, it has been prompted and promoted by people like Zohran Mamdani. The attitude that governance has toward people who are hoodlums in the streets has a marked impact on whether or not people act like hoodlums in the street.

Forget about the broken windows theory. How about this: Attack a cop, you go to jail.

Pretty simple.

But the rising level of disorder and chaos we now see in the country is a direct result of governance decisions being made in blue cities, particularly by the people who actually run those blue cities. Does anyone think it has no impact on how people think of the cops that Zohran Mamdani has spent his entire career — prior to being elected mayor of New York — ripping on the cops and suggesting that they are a nefarious force for viciousness?

Of course, it has an impact.

Every single one of those people pelting the NYPD with snowballs should go to jail. Those are full-grown adults, by the way. Those are not kids. You’re not talking about misbegotten 15-year-old juvenile delinquents who get frisky with the cops.

If you look at the video, you can see people standing there, and when the cops arrive, they start hurling objects at them.

Jessica Tisch, who is the commissioner of the NYPD, put out this statement: “The NYPD is aware of certain videos taken earlier today in Washington Square Park showing individuals attacking cops. I want to be very clear: the behavior depicted is disgraceful, and it is criminal. Our detectives are investigating this matter.”

The NYPD is aware of certain videos taken earlier today in Washington Square Park showing individuals attacking cops.

I want to be very clear: The behavior depicted is disgraceful, and it is criminal.

Our detectives are investigating this matter.

— Jessica S. Tisch (@NYPDPC) February 24, 2026

Credit: @NYPDPC/X.com

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association stated, “This is the environment that NYC police officers are up against. Our police officers are being treated for their injuries, but the case CANNOT end there. The individuals involved must be identified, arrested and charged with assault on a police officer. And all of our city leaders must speak up to condemn this despicable attack.”

The fact is, this attitude toward the police has become commonplace in the United States.

Beginning in 2014, you had the Ferguson riots, justified by the president of the United States. Americans didn’t like that; Donald Trump was elected. You saw a reversion to a law-and-order attitude at the top, but in 2020, the anti-police attitude broke out anew on a much bigger scale.

Now you have blue cities that are being taken over by people who are effectively defund-the-police advocates.

Those advocates may turn around and claim they want to work with the cops, but it’s too late: message received.

This disorder comes from the top. It does not come from the bottom. A disordered government leads to a disordered citizenry. 

There’s a reason that we use the phrase “law and order.” It’s not just law; order also has to be implemented. 

Speaking of Zohran Mamdani — who has totally changed the policy in New York City with regard to getting people off the streets in the middle of blizzards, and then a bunch of people died — he’s saying that people actually died from overdoses, not because they were freezing. 

You’re doing a great job, Mayor Uselessness. 

“We have more than 500 homeless outreach workers who have been traversing the five boroughs looking to connect homeless New Yorkers with services and support,” he declared. “And what we’ve also learned is the tools that were effective over the course of the prolonged cold period —again, a historic period of subfreezing conditions — those are ones we’ve employed from the very first day of our response to this one. I’ll give you one example. A number of those New Yorkers who lost their lives. The preliminary indications came that it was from an overdose-related death.” 

It might have helped if he had forced those people to go inside. Perhaps if he didn’t let people sleep outdoors at all —regardless of the weather —people would die less often of drug overdoses on the street. 

But Mayor Smarmy over there grins at the camera. 

Always. 

And then through that gritted, smarmy smile, he utters the most inane platitudes. 

New Yorkers: You broke it.

You bought it.

In a week where American dominance on the ice reached levels not seen in nearly half a century, the legacy media found itself predictably obsessed with a joke. But while the “outrage machine” spun over a phone call from President Donald Trump, the woman at the center of the Hughes hockey dynasty, Ellen Hughes, was busy reminding the country what actually matters: patriotism and winning.

Team USA didn’t just beat Canada in Milan—they delivered a double dose of overtime heartbreak to our neighbors to the north and sent the Stars and Stripes soaring. First, the women’s team reclaimed gold in a sudden-death thriller. Days later, the men ended a 46-year drought with an overtime “Golden Goal” of their own.

And yes, President Trump noticed.

After the men’s team clinched the top spot on the podium—thanks to a Jack Hughes game-winner for the ages—Trump called to offer his congratulations. During the now-viral call, the President joked that he’d better invite the women’s team to the State of the Union as well, quipping that if he didn’t, “I do believe I probably would be impeached.”

While the “political class” immediately fainted onto their couches, Ellen Hughes—mother of NHL stars Jack and Quinn and a player development consultant for the gold medal-winning women’s squad—responded with the kind of grace and perspective rarely found in Washington.

Appearing on NBC’s “TODAY,” Hughes brushed past the partisan bickering to focus on the achievement of the athletes.

“At the end of the day, it’s just about the country,” she said. “I think the moment that these players, both the men and women, can bring so much unity to a group and to a country—people that cheered on that don’t watch hockey, people that have politics on one side or on the other side—that’s all both teams care about.”

Inside the Olympic bubble, Hughes described a refreshing scene of genuine camaraderie that stands in stark contrast to today’s hyper-polarized climate. The men’s and women’s teams shared dorms, cheered each other on from the stands, and celebrated as one American unit.

“It couldn’t have gone better,” Hughes said. “Both teams going undefeated. We couldn’t have written a better story.”

Her son, Jack Hughes, echoed that sentiment, making it clear that the bond between the two squads is far deeper than any political headline.

“If there’s a camera on me and Quinn when the women’s team won, we look like the biggest superfans of all time,” Jack said. “We were just jumping up and down. We couldn’t believe it. We locked in and said goodbye to everyone because we had a game the next night … but I remember I saw [Megan Keller] the night after they won. I was just like, ‘Megan, I’m so proud of you. I’m so happy for you.’ When mine went in, one of my first thoughts was her … I’m so proud to join her as a gold medalist.”

Jack Hughes on supporting the U.S. women’s hockey team…

“I wish — if there's a camera on me and Quinn when the women's team won, we’d look like the biggest superfans of all time. We were just jumping up and down. We couldn't believe it. And we locked in, said goodbye because… pic.twitter.com/41Z8PnEjnd

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 24, 2026

While the women’s team ultimately declined the State of the Union invitation due to professional and academic scheduling conflicts, they remained “sincerely grateful” for the recognition. Meanwhile, the men’s team is expected to be in attendance tonight at the U.S. Capitol, “somehow, some way,” according to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Despite the media’s best efforts to turn a historic sporting achievement into a partisan wedge issue, the Hughes family and Team USA have stayed focused on the mission.

Two gold medals. Two overtime wins over Canada. One country celebrating together. In the end, it was a rare moment where excellence and patriotism took a front seat, and the political noise was left in the locker room.

Not bad for a couple of hockey games.