Zohran Mamdani: “When Mayor Adams sent those officers to Colombia, one of…”

“I would not have sent the police to Colombia or to cuny. What sending the police did is make that situation far more unsafe than it ever was under any kind of encampment. When Mayor Adams sent those officers to Colombia, one of them discharged a weapon and almost killed a student. If we as Democrats want to say that an elementary school, a middle school, a high school is more unsafe, the more guns you have on that campus.” (10:50–10:57)

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