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NYC pol Tiffany Cabán called cops after threats: sources

Guess who called the cops!

Defund the Police-promoting Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán’s Queens office notified the NYPD after receiving a slew of threatening phone calls — just days after she urged local businesses to refrain from dialing 911.

The messages were received over the weekend and reported to cops by someone in the progressive pol’s office late Tuesday, sources told The Post.

The callers spewed vile threats, telling Cabán they hoped she got “beaten up on the subway” and “your eyes fall out,” according to sources.

“I hope you get your a– kicked,” one of the messages threatened.

The messages came after it emerged that Cabán and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani had released a “public safety” guide that encouraged local merchants to call 311, instead of summoning cops, in most cases.

The guide also urged businesses to “give the person causing harm the chance to correct their behavior,” seek mental health services for people with mental illnesses and engage in “community mediation” before seeking intervention.

Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán’s Queens office notified the NYPD about receiving threatening phone calls after she urged local businesses to refrain from dialing 911.
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“This is hypocritical,” a local landlord raged to The Post in the wake of her office alerting the NYPD.

“When people were getting robbed at gunpoint across the street from her office she did nothing, now she wants police to do something.

“Now someone leaves an anonymous message and she is crying and calling cops while she tells her constituents to call 311 — typical do as I say, not as I do phony politician.”

Meanwhile, a Queens cop griped: “How can anyone take her seriously?”

“She is calling police over an anonymous phone call while she tells victims of violent attacks to ask them if they went to school together,” the cop added. “Maybe she should put a case of soda outside her office.”

Police are currently probing the threats, but Cabán’s spokesperson stressed that her office never called 911.

“We did not call 911, and any suggestion to the contrary is a lie,” the spokesperson said, without elaborating on how they notified cops.

“We will not be offering any comment on the nature of the threats we’ve received.”

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Cabán’s “public safety” guide encourages locals to call 311 instead of 911.
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Two days after promoting the public safety guide, FDNY paramedic Alison Russo-Elling was stabbed to death by a maniac less than two miles from Cabán’s office.

It sparked a heated response from critics who accused the lefty pol, who represents north Astoria and parts of East Elmhurst and Woodside, of being soft on crime.

Curtis Sliwa’s Guardian Angels vowed to plaster fliers in Cabán’s district that urged local residents to call the cops when they need help. 

“If you see a conflict that appears to be escalating; If you see someone having a mental health crisis; If you see someone experiencing drug overdose: CALL 911,” the poster said.

“Always, always, always call the NYPD.”

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Cabán’s spokesperson emphasized that her office never called 911 about the threats.
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A week earlier, Cabán sparked outrage again by tweeting that “Subway violence is a one-in-a-million event” — as footage emerged of a horrific beating at a subway station in her own borough.

The victim in that sick attack, Elizabeth Gomes, later told The Post that Cabán was wildly out of touch.

“The subway system is dangerous and for her to post something like that — it seems to me that she doesn’t ride the subway or have anyone to ride it,” Gomes, a JFK airport security guard, said.

“She doesn’t really understand what it is. It’s just getting worse and worse.”



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