https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/nyregion/mamdani-police-apology-floyd.html
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, said on Thursday that he intended to apologize for comments he made in 2020 calling the New York Police Department “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”
He said that the remarks, which he wrote in June 2020 in a social media post in support of the defund the police movement, were made after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a month earlier.
The comments were made “at the height of frustration,” he said in an interview with The New York Times, and were not reflective of his current campaign or “my view of public safety and the fact that police will be critical partners in delivering public safety.”
So I didn’t get this until a random Lenin text.
Lenin, paraphrased:
'If socialists should seek office in a capitalist world, they will invariably have to help the capitalist state. They will have to send protestors onto labour organizers. They will have to tow the line of the capitalist state, and see to its functions. If we are to say, we should seek office in bourgaise governments, should not socialists also be justistified, using the warped logic, at sending the [police] at protests? No, obviously, this is absurd [so basically, the only things we do in office in capitalist governments is to frusterate them and try to help destroy the capitalist state]."