Zohran Mamdani: “She took on that broken status quo, started to deliver…”

“Because when she came into the nypd, Mayor Adams had stacked the upper echelons of that department with corruption and incompetence. She took on that broken status quo, started to deliver accountability, root out corruption, and reduce crime across five boroughs. And to me, that's exactly the kind of results we would build on under a Mamdani administration. And I've said time and again, it's excellence that I would make my assessments of who to keep and who to hire.” (08:03–08:11)

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