During the New York City mayoral debate tonight, Democratic Socialist (communist) Zohran Mamdani claimed that he is not trying to defund the police. Yet he has called for defunding the police, multiple times.
This is Mamdani trying to escape his own words because he knows that the ‘Defund the Police’ movement is now seen as one of the dumbest political moments in American history. It’s toxic.
Mamdani is still leading in the polls, so who knows if this will even make a difference in the race?
National Review reported:
Mamdani Runs from Anti-Cop Record in NYC Mayoral Debate
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate and current front-runner Zohran Mamdani turned away from his past comments criticizing the New York Police Department and his calls to defund the agency when confronted with his remarks during the first mayoral debate on Thursday.
“He doesn’t believe in law and order,” former New York governor and independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo said of Mamdani. “He believes in defunding the police, disarming the police, disbanding the police. That’s who he is.”
Mamdani accused Cuomo of lying “again and again and again.”
“I am not running to defund the police,” he said. “I am running to actually work with the police to deliver public safety.”
However, in 2020, Mamdani said he believed the city needed a “socialist city council to defund the police” and called the department “wicked & corrupt.”
“We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti‑queer & a major threat to public safety,” Mamdani wrote in another post that year, in response to then-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to investigate the department. “What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.”
Here’s the clip:
Zohran Mamdani lies, claims he doesn’t want to defund the police.
He has publicly called to defund the police over 15 times. pic.twitter.com/sJcb70ES2P
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 17, 2025
New Yorkers are insane if they vote for this man.
Zohran Mamdani: “I never denigrated the NYPD or said that I want to defund the police.”
Zohran Mamdani: pic.twitter.com/VHtKIKhRHx
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 16, 2025
Can one of the moderators pretty please simply read Mamdani’s own word back to him when he denies over and over that he never called for defunding the police? pic.twitter.com/gks9PMHWts
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) October 16, 2025
Mamdani celebrates police officers who are in tears.
The dude needs to be deported. pic.twitter.com/QblVxiMjil
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 29, 2025
Remember this back in March?
Meet Zohran Mamdani, a NY Assemblyman and NYC Mayoral candidate. He just appeared to ASSAULT police and screeched like a maniac to protest Tom Homan deporting criminal illegal aliens.
Seems totally normal and stable… pic.twitter.com/Y4bb0FOzEG
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 12, 2025
Pray for New York City if this man becomes mayor.