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New York City’s leading mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdanidespite previous calls for funding to police, his campaign and personal life still spend a lot on private security.
Mamdani’s movement, he is a Democratic candidate New York According to spending reviewed by Fox News Digital, the mayor and self-explanatory members of the American Democratic Socialists spent $33,495 on private security.
The New York City Campaign Finance Committee reported that Mandani’s campaign submitted three payments to Senior Security and Inquiry in June and July.
The New York-based security professional team of Advanced Security and Investigation provides a range of services, including armed and unarmed protection services.
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New York City’s leading mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has spent a lot of money on private security and personal life, despite previous calls for donations to police. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid and the New York Police Department)
It is also a “pride employer” for NYPD personnel, according to data from the company’s website, Mamdani had previously called for a refund, as well as the New York State Police, the New York Sheriff’s Office and several other law enforcement departments in the area.
The purpose of various payments is “safe”.
Mamdani also made headlines of leaving recently New York City Luxury wedding celebrations were held in Uganda, with special Ugandan military forces reportedly as well as his own private security details.
The three-day exclusive Uganda wedding rave also includes masked military security and a system created by mobile phones.
The Zohran Mamdani movement, the mayoral candidate for New York City and representative of the democratic country, was held in New York City on April 16, 2025. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
Mamdani has been facing a strong rebound after a fatal shooting in Midtown Manhattan last month New York Police Department Dillal Islamdead.
On June 28, 2020, Mamdani posted on social media “We don’t need to investigate to know that the NYPD is a racist, an anti-title and a major threat to public safety. What we need is #defundthenypd. However, your compromise uses can be used to keep the police high to avoid disguise.
He wrote again on July 3, 2020: “We need a socialist city council to return the police.”
Mamdani wrote again that the New York City Council “try to cut the NYPD’s overtime budget by half. They just refused. They didn’t negotiate with this evil and corrupt agency. Demolition it. Demolition it. Ending the cycle of violence.”
New York police funeral at Didarul Islam outside the Parkchester Jame Mosque in New York on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
But Mamdani’s tone during the campaign was very different, and he said this week that the tweets “don’t match my position as a candidate.”
“I did not donate to the police,” he told reporters at a press conference after the shooting.
However, he did not reject the recent social media posts starting in December 2024, and he promised to dissolve the New York Police Department’s Strategic Response Team (SRG), a group that is tasked with responding to mass shootings and other emergencies.
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New York Police Department officials from the Strategic Response Team focused on press conferences by Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs Michael Gerber and Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kay Daughtry (not in the picture), around a press conference at Columbia University in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
“As mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions of dollars in litigation settlements and cruel countless New Yorkers to exercise their First Amendment rights,” he wrote.
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Fox News Digital commented with the Mamdani campaign, but received no immediate response.
Cameron Arcand, Brie Stimson and Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
