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.”
Mamdani’s unwillingness to stand firm against the nypd, whether because he believes it’s necessary to win the election or because it reflects his actual beliefs, has definitely been the most disappointing and annoying thing about him so far. Like you’ve gotta have better political instincts than this, bud - the NYPD aren’t popular AND you’re making yourself look wishy washy.
Does anyone remember BLM, prominent leftist voices and people here, and their stance on the movement and police in general? There was a complete lack of consensus on ‘abolish/defund the police’ and in many cases flat out dismissal of BLM as a legitimate political sentiment.
And now the same people are probably trying to bash Mamdani over this. I still maintain that his stance on NYPD, especially pre-election means absolutely nothing. Not coming out swinging against the most powerful militant organizations on the planet is not the worst idea.
Compromising to libs has never worked. Look at Corbyn.
What even is lib? Because I’ve heard from several people who are leftists that abolish the police is a lib position
I have heard from several unnamed sources that it’s you. You are lib.
lib is the girl reading this
What? no. I’d say there was strong consensus on the left that Police budgets should be lowered and the funds used for education or literally any other municipal function. “Abollish” the police was more complicated, since even on the far left there’s a lot of disagreement about what “abolish the police” even means. But on “defund” the police, the consensus was from far left to progressive libs. Everyone felt that police budgets should be lowered, and the money used for some good.
The only kvetching I remember was about “defund the police” as a slogan, not as an objective. And the people complaining about it were the ones who managed to convince half of Americans that the police actually got defunded even though that didn’t happen.