That’s a sorry explanation.
Allegedly apologetic Zohran Mamdani was mum Monday on when or even how he would make amends with Big Apple cops for his past anti-police statements — that included the mayoral hopeful calling the NYPD “racist” and “anti-queer.”
“The core of my politics is not a theatrics and where I speak to the media to convey what I’m speaking with officers at the core of this campaign has been those conversations,” the Queens socialist said in a word salad response during a rally with Teamsters Local 210 in The Bronx.
“Those conversations with rank-and-file officers, conversations with officers in leadership, and conversations that recognize not only the pain and the diagnosis of it, but how to go beyond acknowledging it and addressing it — and I look forward to working with those officers,” Mamdani said, side-stepping the straightforward question.
Pressure has been mounting for the mayoral frontrunner and Democratic nominee to extend an olive branch to the more than 33,000 rank-and-file cops after trying to walk back his prior anti-cop statements, with Gov. Kathy Hochul last week telling reporters she believed that an apology was in order.
“I think it’s an appropriate response,” said Hochul — who shockingly backed Mamdani in a move first reported by The Post before a guest op-ed in The New York Times published to announce her backing.
In June 2020, Mamdani posted online, “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” in one example of his controversial policing statements.
Mamdani has recently tried to distance himself from the posts, telling the Times last week that he got caught up in the moment during the George Floyd protests and that he would offer an apology to cops.
But, in the days since, the frontrunner to move into Gracie Mansion has offered up no details of how he’d make amends — despite a 400-word reply when pressed for more details Monday.
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