Zohran Mamdani’s public safety hypocrisy – Latest News
The Issue: After the Park Avenue taking pictures, Zohran Mamdani backtracks from calls to defund the NYPD.
With Zohran Mamdani arriving at slain NYPD Officer Didarul Islam’s home after his prior calls to “defund the police” and his assertion that “the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” Islam’s household ought to have spit in his face (“Zohran Thin Blue lyin’?,” July 31).
What will sleazeball Mamdani not say to get elected?
Can anybody imagine something he says?
William T. Fidurski
Clark, NJ
Mamdani went to the funeral of the hero Muslim cop and praised the police.
Did he go to the funeral of the Jewish sufferer, Julia Hyman?
Of course not.
He’s a whole bigot, and his reward of the police rings so hole.
But something to get votes — proper, Zo?
Saul J. Mishaan
Brooklyn
I hope New Yorkers are good enough to see via Mamdani’s lies about defunding the police.
We simply went via this earlier than with all of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ flip-flops, and now we see it occurring again.
Even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has gotten into the act.
She modified and voted in assist of funding for Israel’s Iron Dome, which she by no means did earlier than.
Don’t politicians know we’d respect them more in the event that they caught to what they honestly believed in and stopped altering their views simply to win an election?
Let’s all pray in some way Mamdani doesn’t win.
Stephen Colasacco
The Bronx
While located in a heavily-secured Uganda compound, “defund the police” advocate Mamdani responded to the Park Avenue taking pictures with assist for the NYPD.
Hopefully New York City voters is not going to be fooled by his fleeting backing for the NYPD, as he has made his viewpoints clear.
Mamdani doesn’t advocate for law and order.
Eileen Corr
Brewster, Mass.
Thanks to your glorious editorial (“Zohran’s ‘Defund’ Flip,” July 31). Maya Angelou stated it best: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Charles T. Compton
Riverdale
Mamdani’s sudden change of coronary heart on defunding the police ought to come as no shock.
Of all the novel adjustments he guarantees, his place on crime is what New Yorkers, together with some loyal Democrats, discover troubling.
It was the crucial subject that allowed Mayor Adams to beat a area of socialists within the final mayoral election.
The 345 Park Ave. murders present a well timed alternative for Mamdani to bury his quite a few anti-cop posts.
His democratic socialist base shall be undeterred by his flip-flop, as he nonetheless represents a path to progressive insurance policies.
With this platform change, he can have eliminated an impediment within the minds of more average voters — in the event that they or anybody else are naive enough to trust him.
Richard J. Carhidi
Manhattan
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Borrowing from my expertise in promoting, I’ve an applicable nickname for Mamdani: The Smiling Cobra.
He’s at all times smiling via his lies!
Dermod Sullivan
Greenwich, Conn.
Zohran Mamdani and others who’ve advocated for defunding the police have no place in public service.
Had there been more police officers within the space round Park Avenue and 52nd Street, the horrific murders of 4 harmless people may have been prevented.
We need more police on the streets of New York, not much less.
We need a better police presence in our faculties, homes of worship, workplace buildings, theaters, public parks and on our streets.
We need to save lots of our cities and shield our residents.
Betty Schwartz
Livingston, NJ
As if on cue, a lunatic murdered and injured innocents in Midtown Manhattan on a busy weekday.
Fortunately, the NYPD shortly responded and proceeded with securing the realm and evacuating these sheltering in places of work.
We all should actually pause and contemplate how this occasion would have performed out with socialist Mamdani as mayor.
Would we actually be protected in a metropolis headed by him?
I believe the reply is evident.
Michael Tannenbaum
Brooklyn
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