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This week, New York City’s socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made the headlines as he tried to roam a long track record dating back to 2020 in pursuit of criticizing the New York Police Department and paying it back.
On Wednesday, Mamdani told reporters after the death of a NYPD officer in midtown Manhattan, “I’m not running to refund police,” “candidates who are not pinned in time, learn and some of them recognize that some of them have grown, some of which means I have grown.
Mamdani added that his past call to reimburse police was created out of “frustration” over George Floyd’s death.
Fox News Digital reviewed his comments on his position on police, dating back several days after Floyd’s death.
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Zohran Mamdani June 24, 2025, NYC mayoral discussion, left, NYPD car, right. (Getty)
June 5th, 2020
“Two police officers hit the harmless old man on the ground and bleed him on the pavement,” Mamdani posted on X.
June 28, 2020
“There is no need to investigate to find out that the NYPD is a major threat to racist, anti-fire and public safety,” Mamdani posted on X.
July 3, 2020:
“We need a socialist city council to refund the police,” Mamdani posted on X.
November 6, 2020
“Queer liberation means giving back the police,” Mamdani posted on X.
November 7, 2020
“Nature is soothing,” Mandani wrote on X in response to the user laughing and laughing as he saw the police officer “crying in his car.”
December 7th, 2020
“The city council tried to have the NYPD cut its overtime budget by half,” Mamdani posted to X.
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Mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani of New York City will speak to the media at 32BJ SEIU headquarters following the massive shooting in Manhattan that claimed the lives of New York Police Station (NYPD) police officers and others in Manhattan, New York on July 30, 2025.
June 5th, 2021
In an interview with Saag Interactive, Mamdani promoted the idea of reimbursing police again and proposed a division to work with the Israeli IDF to invest in “apartheid.”
December 19, 2024
“As mayor, I will dissolve the SRG, which has become brutal to countless New Yorkers who have taxpayers imposed a settlement of lawsuits of millions and exercised their first amendment,” Mamdani posted on X.
Mamdani’s long history of anti-political rhetoric has led to intense skepticism from many that his Wednesday press conference truly represents abandonment of the desire to refund or hamstring police.
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New York City Candidate Mayor Zohran Mamdani will speak at a press conference on April 1, 2025 while exercising outside a New York City subway station (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
“Zohran ‘Nature Is Healing’ Mamdani’s Wednesday presser struck me as a cynical and transparent attempt at damage control in response to an incident that served as a violent and somber reminder to New Yorkers of the enormous daily risks taken on their behalf by the men and women of the NYPD,” Rafael Mangual, senior fellow and head of research for policy and public safety at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, told Fox This week’s News Digital.
“However, even under the tragic circumstances in which press conferences were held, Mamdani has balked multiple opportunities to explicitly retract or apologise for the long and troubling history of anti-political statements.”
Andrew Mark Miller is a Fox News reporter. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email him with tips to Andrewmark.miller@fox.com.
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