Megan Basham
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Henderson had this to say.
Yeah, so one of his most controversial moves, Georgia, is that he just put out this video addressed to immigrants in which he told them that they have a right to resist ICE.
So this is what he said.
So critics argue that this goes beyond merely explaining constitutional rights.
And some say that it could embolden illegal aliens, even those with criminal records, to resist or evade ICE efforts to start to deport illegal aliens.
I think we need to remember that pre-election, Mamdani did call ICE reckless and he vowed to, quote unquote, fight back against them.
Yeah, so this has been an explosive topic because Mamdani has tapped a man named, and I'm possibly going to get the pronunciation wrong, but it's Meissen Linnan to be a key voice on justice reform, on his committee on the criminal legal system.
Now, Lennon was once a rising hip-hop star.
He had a contract with Def Jam.
But in 1999, he was convicted of two armed robberies, specifically for holding up taxi drivers with a gun.
And he served seven years and was finally paroled in 2006.
He then rebranded as something of a Black Lives Matter activist.
And he founded this group Until Freedom with a woman named Linda Sarsour.
And she's a controversial pro-Palestinian activist.
And she's also served as a Mamdani advisor.
So law enforcement, as you can imagine, is pretty apoplectic about this.
The corrections officer's union head, Benny Boschio,
called it, quote, disheartening and deeply disturbing.
And retired NYPD brass like John Chell say that it's a pattern of Mamdani filling his team with these anti-cop firebrands, people like Black nationalist Lamuba Mbandele and Defund the Police guru Alex Vitelli and others.
And that includes a left-wing social justice activist who once named a convicted cop killer