https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/nyregion/mamdani-police-apology-floyd.html
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, said on Thursday that he intended to apologize for comments he made in 2020 calling the New York Police Department “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”
He said that the remarks, which he wrote in June 2020 in a social media post in support of the defund the police movement, were made after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a month earlier.
The comments were made “at the height of frustration,” he said in an interview with The New York Times, and were not reflective of his current campaign or “my view of public safety and the fact that police will be critical partners in delivering public safety.”
to all the brave boys in blue waking up every day and putting in the hard work of shooting dogs, destroying black communities, assisting ICE, and sexually assaulting people in handcuffs. Society would be absolute CHAOS without them shining strobe flashlights at every black person they see walking at night. Can you imagine? A black guy walking a dog? No way that's a gang member scouting out potential robberies.