ALBANY – Zohran Mamdani needs to apologize for calling the NYPD “racist,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday, in her strongest personal rebuke yet of the Democratic mayoral candidate.

“I believe an apology is in order,” Hochul told reporters when asked about Mamdani’s half-baked promise to The New York Times on Thursday that he’d apologize to cops for the controversial statements.

He said in an interview with the Times that the comments were made “at the height of frustration” against law enforcement in summer 2020, when anti-police protests raged nationwide in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis. 3

“We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” Mamdani wrote in a June 28, 2020, social media post .

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