Zohran Mamdani: “I've been critical of the Strategic Response Group, a group…”

“And much of this conversation around protests has also been a question of which police would respond to that protest. You know, I've. I've been critical of the Strategic Response Group, a group that was founded in the mid 2010s with the intent of being a counterterrorism force that has now become the primary response to acts of protest. And I think that to say that we must separate the police presence at an act of the First Amendment versus countering terrorism is not to say that we should not have any presence.” (37:41–37:54)

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