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.”
The very video about Palestine he got famous for, he was already full of shit in. “Israel has a right to exist… (as a state with equal rights)”? No. It doesn’t. States don’t have a right to exist and that state is predicated on claiming to have equal rights while being institutionalized apartheid.
This is more of the same. I left NYC, among other reasons, because it’s a miniature police state, with the NYPD leading the charge. The fuck is he even going to do as mayor if he’s not going to rein them in?
I did not really mind the Palestine comments because he basically denies the state of Israel in the way he framed it. But at the pace of Zohran is going now, all that will be done when he gets in power is building like 3 government ran supermarkets.
It’s not Zohver yet but it is going downhill.
But stated the opposite. His words (maybe slightly paraphrasing) - “Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights”. That’s not denying it. That’s defining its “right to exist” within the same terms they themselves use to describe it. The correct, truthful answer is “states don’t have a right to exist”. We don’t have time for clever riddles that play both sides.
I don’t care about any words anymore I care about policies. Look at Turkey shouting big words and then supplying with Israel 30% the oil they use.
If Zohran does BDS I don’t care what lip service he puts on.
he’s running to the right and; if he has any staying power; he will become another aoc or bernie.
By AOC or Bernie, are you referring to two people that have done a thousand times more to shift the Overton window left than you and a dozen friends will ever achieve?
I just love all the ineffective edgy leftists constantly telling the only people making progress that they’re doing it wrong.
This is funny because the Democrat party has been going to the right despite the non-existent efforts of these two to move it leftwards and indicative of reasons why the Democrats keep losing to the likes of Trump… Over and over again
If you don’t even know the name of the party, I’m really not optimistic about your insights. The party at large has clearly shifted left, even if the old guard hasn’t lost their grip yet. There is a long way to go, and this edgy bullshit is nothing but distraction from the real work.
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)