Zohran Mamdani: “We are committed as an administration to closing Rikers…”

“There was an incarcerated New Yorker who attempted to take their own life in front of my former colleague, assembly woman Jessica Gonzalez Rojas. And We are committed as an administration to closing Rikers Island. And part of that commitment is also illustrated in the hiring of a position that will be focused on ensuring that the city can actually start to live up to …” (30:27–30:31)

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