Michael Rapaport On Repeat Offenders In NYC: ‘Put Them In A F***ing Zoo’
Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport unleashed a scathing rebuke of New York City’s revolving-door justice system, calling out the city’s refusal to jail violent repeat offenders—and blaming the far-left leadership fueling it.
In a fiery monologue posted to social media, Rapaport cited a recent incident involving his wife, who was groped in broad daylight on the streets of Manhattan. Furious, the 55-year-old said, “I’m sorry you’re a psychopath. I’m sorry you’re mentally ill. But I don’t need you walking around me. I don’t need you walking around my wife.”
The story unfolded as his wife and her friend were leaving a theater show in the city, only to be violated on the sidewalk by a stranger who “rubbed up on her,” according to Rapaport. “Violated my wife in New York City,” he said. “I don’t want people like that walking around my wife. I don’t want people that have been arrested 14 times… walking around my wife, walking around my kids. Nor should you.”
He didn’t mince words about what should happen to those habitual offenders: “Put them in a f***ing zoo.”
I don’t want my Wife walking around men that have been arrested 14 times sorry.#nyc #crime #ZohranMamdani pic.twitter.com/M53okIJXoI
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) September 13, 2025
The remarks came as Rapaport took aim at far-left New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and the soft-on-crime policies championed by the city’s progressive leadership. Though once an outspoken liberal, Rapaport’s tone has taken a dramatic turn.
Social media users were quick to applaud what many saw as a red-pill moment.
“Watching a liberal metamorphosis into a conservative after life happening to them is like watching a caterpillar turn into a beautiful butterfly,” one commenter wrote.
“I love to see Michael’s complete 180 transformation,” another user said. “That’s what happens when you start to see things for how they are and not what you’ve been told they are.”
In recent years, Rapaport has distanced himself from the Democratic Party. Once a vocal critic of Donald Trump, he has since emerged as a public defender of Israel in the wake of the October 7 terror attacks and has begun calling out the violent rhetoric and crime excused by parts of the left.
Just days ago, he also weighed in on the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. “Any public person that would, in any way, shape, or form, support, laugh at, excuse, the public killing of Charlie Kirk, is sick. Really, really, really twisted,” he said.