Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist leading the race for New York mayor, tried to distance himself from past criticism of the NYPD, two days after a mass shooting at a midtown office building left five people dead,

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani paid tribute to the fallen off-duty officer killed in a shooting in a Midtown Manhattan office building on Monday. Mamdani said at a press conference on Wednesday that he visited the family of Didarul Islam,