Zohran Mamdani spent the last hours of his wedding celebration in Uganda huddled remotely with his team after learning of New York’s deadliest mass shooting of the last 25 years.
He returned this week to the biggest political test he’s faced since pulling off a stunning victory in the June 24 Democratic primary: Honoring the deaths of Officer Didarul Islam and three others while addressing his past calls to defund the police department he hopes to oversee as mayor if he wins the November election.
“I am not defunding the police. I am not running to defund the police,” Mamdani told reporters Wednesday after meeting with Islam’s family. He described himself as a “candidate who is not fixed in time, one that learns and one that leads, and part of that means admitting as I have grown.”
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Mamdani confronts his past calls to defund police after an officer’s death in New York
- by: Gloria Pazmino
- 07.31.25
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CNN
- 07/31/2025
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