Reposted by Noah Shachtman
Turns out that under Mamdani, the mayor’s office has signed off on every single deployment of the NYPD Strategic Response Group since becoming mayor, except for last week’s appearance at the UNGA protests.
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Inside Mamdani’s fraught effort to rein in the NYPD unit he pledged to end
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