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.”

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        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.