Fox Anchor Presses Mamdani Into Apologizing Live On Air to NYPD Officers He Called ‘Racist’ and ‘Wicked’

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum pressed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani into apologizing live on-air to the NYPD officers he called “racist” and “wicked,” Wednesday.

“I don’t want you to leave without me asking you about your relationship with the police because obviously this is a big issue,” said MacCallum during an interview with Mamdani on The Story. “You called the police force ‘racist,’ said they were a major threat to public safety, called them ‘wicked’ and ‘corrupt,’ and now the report that you apologized to two dozen members of the NYPD. What did you say to them?”

Mamdani responded, “I apologized 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 this 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 also focus on the mental health crisis, to focus also on homelessness.”

“Police officers that I spoke to, they don’t want a behind closed doors apology,” MacCallum replied. “They want a broad, public apology for the things that you suggested about them. Will you do that right now?”

Mamdani agreed, “Absolutely, I will 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.”

The Uganda-born mayoral candidate has received criticism from his opponent, former New York City mayor Andrew Cuomo, over his previous comments towards police officers.

“He has said he was part of this defund the police movement. He has said that the police are a threat to public safety, that they are racists, that he would dismantle the police department. So these are all very harsh statements,” said Cuomo on CNN in July. “I think it would be very hard to recruit police who would want to work for a mayor who basically called, not basically, did call the police officers racist. I think he would aggravate what is already a bad situation.”

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