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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.”

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Very fitting that the local DNC advocate would say this.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah that's what I am. Because nuance means I'm not pure enough for the left. I must be a "DNC advocate."

Go fuck yourself

The left has constantly sabotaged itself for the past 100 years, at least. I'm far from the first person to point this out.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah that’s what I am.

That was unfair. You're the local netanyahu apologist.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Your reputation precedes you.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 6 days ago

Haha cool.

Anyone who honestly reads my comment history will be able to tell that I am not a fan of the Democrats.

I'm just not a fucking moron.