Zohran (Zoran/Zohar) Mamdani

I apologize for the language that I used, and I spoke to them about the fact that I want to work with them to deliver public safety, because what we're seeing in the city right now is we're asking officers to do nearly everything we can think of.

We used to ask officers to focus on serious crimes.

Now we're asking them to focus also on the mental health crisis, to focus also on homelessness.

In one year alone, the NYPD receives 200,000 mental health calls.

Absolutely.

I'll apologize to police officers right here because this is the apology that I've been sharing with many rank and file officers.

And I apologize because of the fact that I'm looking to work with these officers.

And I know that these officers, these men and women who serve in the NYPD, they put their lives on the line every single day.

I've said that this is a city that believes in international law, and this is a city that wants to uplift and uphold those beliefs.

It hasn't signed the treaty for the International Criminal Court.

The International Criminal Court, however, has issued a warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu.

As it has for Vladimir Putin, I've said that I believe that we should uphold arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court and that we should do so only in abiding with all of the laws in front of us.

I'm not going to make a new law to ensure that we can actually do this.

I've appreciated Commissioner Tisch's leadership of the NYPD, and I think that she's done a good job at lowering crime across the city.

I can tell you that I'm going to exhaust every legal option in front of me not to make new laws to do so.

I think those are bodies and remains that should absolutely be returned.

And I think that I have no issue with critiquing Hamas or the Israeli government because my critiques all come from a place of universal human rights.

And my focus, however, is right here in New York City and transforming the most expensive city in America into one that's affordable for each and every New Yorker.

I believe that any future here in New York City is one that we have to make sure that's affordable for all.

And as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, that we have to ensure that there is peace.