Former Democratic Party advisor Dan Turrentine blasted New York democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for his recently resurfaced comments on law enforcement.
Since he won the Democratic primary, Mamdani has faced blistering criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for his rhetoric, such as refusing to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which many argue is a call for violence.
Most recently, Mamdani’s 2020 interview on the “Immigrantly” podcast went viral on social media.
In the clip, Mamdani argued that if one looks at the history of the New York Police Department, “you can see that we have invested in a system that functions in many ways to punish poor Black and Brown people.”
He went on to claim that these officers are overstepping their proper roles, whether they are called in to handle a homeless person on a train or if somebody is “surviving, you know, going through domestic violence.”
Since he won the