Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday afternoon delivered a televised public apology for tweets he made five years ago calling the NYPD "racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”

Mamdani, who promised last month in an interview that he would apologize, has said he has been apologizing in person to officers he’s met privately. The interview marked the first time he had apologized for his comments in a public setting.

Pressed Wednesday by host Martha MacCallum to issue a “broad public apology,” Mamdani did not hesitate, later explaining that his earlier criticism had been motivated by the police killing in Minnesota of George Floyd in 2020, when “it felt like safety and justice had never been further apart.” The murder sparked nationwide protests.

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