Zohran Mamdani: “We need to ensure we bring the strategies that have worked…”

“… officers who were trained to provide mental health response then shot and killed him within three minutes. That does not serve anyone in that situation or the city at large. We need to ensure we bring the strategies that have worked elsewhere in the country that have been proven successful. and aggressively pursue them here in our city. And chief among them also is gun violence prevention. You have spoken out, obviously, quite vocally in the aftermath of the Israel Hamas war.” (06:47–06:54)

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