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Zohran Mamdani: “A person experiencing a mental health episode does not…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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LIVE | NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes an announcement

Published | Video Starts at 44:24

One is a lot of this is exactly the focus of the conversations that we're having internally in developing out this Department of Community Safety. Additionally, I want to make clear that A person experiencing a mental health episode does not always have to be served first or exclusively by a police officer. It is important for us to have all of the options available, and that's exactly what we're looking at. Thank you all so much. Appropriately, Mr. Mayor, having seen the footage. (44:24–44:32)

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Asserts that police officers are not always the first or only responders needed for mental health episodes.

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