NEW YORK — As the White House muses on sending the military into American cities, Zohran Mamdani is contemplating a serious shakeup in how New York City handles large-scale protests — a potential pretext for such deployments.
Mamdani, the frontrunner in the mayoral race, is beginning to shed light on how he would handle massive demonstrations in the nation’s largest city without the involvement of a controversial NYPD unit that, for roughly a decade, has been a key component of the city’s response when tens of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets.
The Democratic mayoral nominee and his campaign said this week that he’s studying a more hands-off, dialogue-focused approach employed by the police department of Columbus, Ohio…