New York City Democratic mayoral hopeful, Zohran Mamdani, has suggested that his calls to “Defund the Police” were made amidst his anger following the death of George Floyd in late May 2020, and should be disregarded as a moral outburst.
Yet a review by Just the News has found the self-proclaimed socialist continued calling to defund the New York Police Department (NYPD) for years after — and made his anti-Israel stance central to his opposition to the NYPD, and in what many might call an out-of-touch and unproven conspiracy theory linking the NYPD to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Mamdani has tweeted repeatedly about the need to “Defund the Police" — a position he tried to back away from when he ran for mayor this year. While Mamdani is now attempting to portray his calls to defund the New York Police Department as comments localized to the time period just after Floyd’s summer 2020 death after being arrested by Minneapolis police, his efforts to slash the NYPD continued unabated into 2021 and beyond, as he connected his efforts to hobble the police department to his strong anti-Israel views.
