Mamdani diverts questions about anti-political comments after the death of the NYPD officer

The Democratic candidate of the New York Democrat Town Hall, Zohran Mamdani, dodged the responsibility of his past call to finance the police following a mass shooting in Manhattan who left four people, including a police officer from New York (NYPD).

The 33 -year -old democratic socialist returned to New York on Wednesday of his wedding celebration in Uganda on Wednesday and immediately visited the home of the NYPD fallen officer, Didarul Islam, then held a press conference with the brother of Islam at the headquarters of the International Union of Service Employees (SEIU) in Manhattan.

Mamdani was dotted with questions from journalists on his past political positions, in particular his call in 2020 to finance the police and his recent promise to dissolve the NYPD strategic response group (SRG), which responds to riots, civil disorders and mass fire, such as the incident at Manhattan on Monday evening.

“My statements in 2020 were those made in the middle of a frustration that many New Yorkers were holding during the murder of George Floyd,” said Mamdani when a journalist asked if he regretted one of his previous comments.

Mamdani has torn anti-political rhetoric after publishing a tribute to the NYPD officer

Zohran Mamdani dodged the responsibility of his past call to finance the police following a mass shooting in Manhattan who left four dead, including an officer from the NYPD. (Reuters / Bing Guan)

Mamdani has since backed up his position on the funding of the police, but his competitors, including the former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, seized such comments, telling CNN that CNN that Mamdani does not understand “Importance of the NYPD”.

Zohran Mamdani dodges questions about mass shots after returning from vacation in Africa

“I know that Governor Cuomo is much more comfortable in the past, whether he is to attack me for tweets made before I was even a member of the Assembly,” said Mamdani on Wednesday. “What I have said, many and many times is the campaign I head, the campaign I ask the New Yorkers to consider is clear about its public security approach.”

In an exclusive interview on Wednesday, Cuomo told Fox News Digital that his comments “were not part of tragedy advertising” and arguing that it was a “political discussion that we must have in this campaign”.

Mamdani said he was planning to fight against the police of the police service as mayor.

The candidate for the town hall of New York and representative of the Democratic State Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York on April 16, 2025. Voters will go to the polls on June 24, 2025 to vote in the Democratic primary during the Mayors of New York. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

“What I’m talking about is a vision that will not only approach public security, but will also keep officers in this police department and make sure they can really respond to the crimes committed in this city,” said Mamdani.

The socialist candidate criticized the former governor to “spend an entire day to speak almost exclusively about me, and barely New Yorkers who have been killed,” calling “the policy of politics that New Yorkers want to leave in the past”.

And when a journalist asked Mamdani if he assumes a responsibility for some of his comments spent on the NYPD, including a joke, “Nature is healed”, in response to someone who celebrated a cop crying in his car in 2020, Mamdani again dodged responsibility, praising his new link with NYPD officers on their experiences.

The former New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, arrives to testify in front of the subcommittee selected on the coronavirus pandemic in the office of the house office Rayburn in the American capitol on September 10, 2024, in Washington, DC, DC (Kent nishimura)

“It is clear for me because it is clear for so many New Yorkers, of the immense risk that, many take on the moment they do this work,” said Mamdani, “what I will be as mayor is someone who recognizes the work that these officers do, who seeks to ensure the work that brought them to this department and always focused on the result of public security.”

Mamdani again criticized Cuomo for “trying to score” political points for his review of Mamdani.

“We spend much more of our time trying to mark this kind of points than asking ourselves, how can we make sure that New Yorkers are safe?” Mamdani said.

The Democratic socialist obtained the approvals of representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont while the New York National Democratic leaders, including the head of the House minority, representative Hakeem Jeffries and the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, have not yet brought the controversial candidate.

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Mamdani said on Wednesday that he echoed Governor Kathy Hochul, Dn.y., who also retains his approval, for a national prohibition of assault rifles.

“I ask at the moment, we are meeting as New Yorkers, and we remember the four of our neighbors who were killed. We honor their memories, and we are up to the way they lead their lives,” said Mamdani.