As the young New York City State Democratic Rep. gets ready to probably lead the ‘Big Apple’….
He contiunes to move to the political centre ….
It’s one thing too run your mouth…
But as Barack Obama has told Mamdani…
Governing is something different …
Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani issued a broad public apology to the NYPD Wednesday during an interview on Fox News.
The mea culpa from the democratic socialist marks the first time he has apologized en masse to members of the nation’s largest police force for his past comments that the department should be defunded and it is “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”
Mamdani first pledged to apologize for his incendiary 2020 remarks last month. Since then, he has been expressing his regret during private meetings with cops.
“Police officers that I spoke to, they don’t want a behind-closed-doors apology,” Fox News’ Martha MacCallum told the democratic nominee during Wednesday’s edition of The Story, his first appearance on the conservative network as a candidate. “They want a broad public apology for the things that you suggested about them. Will you do that right now?”
Mamdani took her up on the offer.
“Absolutely, I’ll apologize to police officers right here, because this is the apology that I’ve been sharing with many rank-and-file officers,” he said. “I apologize because of the fact that I’m looking to work with these officers. And I know that these officers, these men and women who serve in the NYPD, they put their lives on the line every single day.”
Mamdani said some of his thinking evolved from his time in the state Legislature and from hearing comments by one of his chief nemeses, Mayor Eric Adams, about how social justice and public safety go hand in hand.
“It was actually Eric Adams in 2021 who said that New Yorkers need not choose between these two things,” Mamdani said. “And so one of my focuses was, ‘How do we deliver that justice?’ And now what I know, having represented 100,000 people in western Queens, is that to deliver that justice you have to also deliver that safety. And that means representing the men and women in the NYPD. It means representing the Black and brown New Yorkers who have been victims of police brutality. It means representing the Muslim New Yorkers in my district who were surveilled on the basis of their faith.”
How Mamdani would lead the NYPD given his past criticism — which continued through 2022 — has been an enduring question of the campaign…..
Note….
Mamdani still needs Sliwa voters to stay with him and young voters to actually come out and vote….
image….Mamdani on FOX….Evan Agostini/AP
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