The Brief
- NYC’s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has been walking back comments he previously made about defunding the police.
- On Tuesday night at a National Night Out Against Crime event, Mamdani told reporters that tweets that resurfaced last week “are out of step” with his positions as a candidate.
- Mamdani has, however, defended his Dec. 2024 call to disband the New York Police Department’s Strategic Response Group (SRG), one of the force’s special operations units.
New York, New York – New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has been walking back comments he previously made about defunding the police.
What did Mamdani mean when he tweeted #DefundThePolice? And if this no longer holds true, how would he run the NYPD as mayor? Here’s what we know:
Mamdani’s tweets from 2020
The backstory:
On Tuesday night at a National Night Out Against Crime event, Mamdani told reporters that tweets that resurfaced last week “are out of step” with his positions as a candidate.…