John Ondrasik took a stab at getting inside the mentality of Superman in his song “Superman (It’s Not Easy).” The NYPD itself alluded to Superman in praise of the actions of Assistant Chief Aaron Edwards chasing down the wannabe ISIS bombers who attempted to murder and mangle cops and others outside Gracie Mansion this past weekend.
— Benny Polatseck (@BPolatseck) March 10, 2026
The New York Post now profiles Chief Edwards in “The internet can’t get enough of NYPD chief who bravely vaulted into action to tackle terror suspects.” Chief Edwards is a humble and inspirational gentleman of the old school: “Regardless of rank, regardless of title, regardless of position, you’re a cop first, you’re a cop always — once a cop, always a cop,” Edwards said. “When you see danger, you have that cop in you, you react to it.”
NEW: The NYPD chief who was caught on camera chasing down the ISIS-inspired New York City bomb throwers speaks out.
46-year-old commander of Patrol Borough Manhattan North, Chief Aaron Edwards, is speaking out following the incident.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 10, 2026
The Post has more:
[T]he Web only had praise for Edwards, who along with fellow NYPD Sgt. Luis Navarro ran toward Saturday’s suspects, Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19.
The teens allegedly tossed the IEDs during a chaotic anti-Muslim demonstration and counter-protest outside the mayoral residence.
Edwards can be seen in the photo jumping over a police barricade to chase down Balat — even as smoke from one IED was filling the air.
“I gotta say, Sgt. [Luis] Navarro alerted me first that he saw these two males with something in their hands, and he tapped me, said, ‘What are they doing?’ ” Edwards recalled to The Post.
”And you know, we needed to just started running towards them.
“It was the entire team … the whole NYPD coming together and springing into action,” he said.
Edwards, a St. Albans, Queens, native who lives with his wife and two sons in Huntington, LI, was a college student studying biology and planning to go into pharmaceutical sales when terrorists ravaged the Big Apple on Sept. 11, 2001.
He was inspired enough by the heroism of the NYPD and others that day to decide to become a cop, he told The Post at his promotion to assistant chief by Commissioner Tisch in December.
The Post rounds out the picture with glimpses of the meme treatment Chief Edwards has earned. Here we go.
One of Superman’s less diffident thoughts expressed in the song by John Ondrasik fits Chief Edwards to a tee: “You can all sleep sound tonight.”
Via James Freeman/WSJ Best of the Web (“Duty, Honor, Country, City”).
