Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., hit out at State legislator Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City, for “backtracking” on his past criticism of law enforcement, saying “it’s very confusing” messaging in an interview with Newsmax on Wednesday.
Mamdani said during a press conference last week following the deadly mass shooting in Manhattan that he is “not running to defund the police” and said his past social media comments about law enforcement were “out of step” with his current opinions.
“Well, what’s interesting is they’re all backtracking” on criticism of law enforcement, Malliotakis said on “National Report,” going on to accuse Mamdani of having “literally said he wants to defund the police, that we shouldn’t have jails in our society, there’s no purpose for them that NYPD is the biggest threat to public safety, and now he’s backtracking, trying to show New Yorkers that he actually supports the NYPD.”
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