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.”
This. If he apologizes, then we’ll just be in the position of hoping he’s making a fake apology and actually does shit…which isn’t a good way to be doing politics
You win people over to your positions by putting them out there and defending what you believe
Moreover, this stance by him won’t win anyone over and will demotivate his supporters. At best, if he apologizes then maybe the cops will fuck with him less (lmao)