Zohran Mamdani: “What we've seen, in fact, is an inability to prove them…”

“I mean, and this is at the core of what has outraged so many New Yorkers is that we still don't know the charges for which they have detained Mahmoud Khalil. And What we've seen, in fact, is an inability to prove them because there are no charges. This is an attack on the First Amendment. It's an attack on one of the most core things about being an American, which is the right to engage in political speech without fear that your government is going to lock you up.” (03:26–03:31)

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