Zohran Mamdani: “At the core of this campaign has been those conversations…”

“Look, the importance at the core of my politics is not a theatrics in where I speak to the media to convey what I am speaking with officers. At the core of this campaign has been those conversations, 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 looked forward to working with those officers in partnership. So he sort of implied there he was being more contrite and changing his rhetoric in these one on one conversations.” (03:32–03:49)

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