Mamdani confronts his past calls to defund police after an officer’s death in New York

“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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