Dem candidate, Zohran Mamdani, spent big for private security despite the funding earlier of police rhetoric

The main candidate for the town hall for New York, Zohran Mamdani, spends important for private security for his campaign and his personal life despite previous calls to finance the police.

The campaign for Mamdani, who is the Democratic candidate for the mayor of New York and the self-identified member of the Democratic Socialists of America, spent $ 33,495 on private security, according to expenses examined by Fox News Digital.

Expenditure published in the New York City Campaign Finance Board show that Mamdani’s campaign submitted three payments to Advanced Security & Investigations in June and July.

Advanced Security & Investigations, a group of security professionals based in New York, offers a range of services, including armed and unarmed protection services.

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The main candidate for the town hall for New York, Zohran Mamdani, spends important for private security for his campaign and his personal life despite previous calls to finance the police. (Reuters / Brendan McDermid and Erik McGregor / Lightrocket via Getty Images)

According to the company’s website, it is also a “proud employer” of the staff of the New York Police Service, which Mamdani previously called to finance, as well as the New York State police, the New York Sheriff Office and several other law enforcement services in the region.

The objective indicated for the various payments, which varied from about $ 8,000 to around $ 13,000, is “security”.

Mamdani also recently made the headlines for leaving New York to launch a sumptuous marriage celebration in Uganda, which would have been kept by armed Ugandan military forces as well as its own private security details.

The exclusive three -day wedding party in Uganda also included masked military security and a jarmage system by mobile phone.

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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. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

Mamdani was faced with an intense reaction for his previous calls to finance the NYPD after a deadly shooting in the center of Manhattan last month who left five people, including the suspect and officer of the NYPD Didarul Islam, dead.

On June 28, 2020, Mamdani posted on social networks: “We do not need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-reservoir and a major threat to public security. What we need is #defundthenypd. But your compromise uses the police.”

“We need a socialist municipal council to finance the police,” he wrote again on July 3, 2020.

Again, in December 2020, Mamdani wrote, the New York Municipal Council “tried to ensure that the NYPD half reduced its extension budget. They simply refused. There is no negotiation with such a nasty and corrupt institution. Found it. Take the cycle of violence.”

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New York police meet in front of the Parkchester Jame Masjid mosque for the funeral of officer Didarul Islam, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in New York. (APPHOTE / Angelina Katsanis)

However, Mamdani took a very different tone during his campaign, saying this week that these tweets are “out of step with my candidate positions”.

After the shooting, he told journalists at a press conference: “I was not running I was not running to finance the police.”

However, he did not disavow a more recent article on social networks of December 2024 in which he undertook to dissolve the NYPD strategic response group (SRG), which is responsible for responding to mass fire and other emergencies.

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The NYPD officers of the strategic response group form a protective wall around the assistant commissioner for legal questions Michael Gerber and the assistant commissioner for operations Kay Daughtry, and not in the photo, during a press conference concerning the camp of the pro-Palestinians in progress at Columbia University in New York on Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP photo / Stefan Jeremiah)

He wrote: “As mayor, I dissolve the SRG, which cost taxpayers to the millions of trials of trials and brutalized countless New Yorks exercising their rights to the first amendment.”

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Fox News Digital contacted the Mamdani campaign to comment but did not immediately receive an answer.

Cameron Arcand, Brie Stimson and Andrew Mark Miller by Fox News Digital, contributed to this report.