Andrew Cuomo went in on Zohran Mamdani during Thursday’s mayoral debate over the socialist front-runner’s past comments about the NYPD, including calling the department “racist” and a “threat to public safety.”

“Respect the police. They’re not racists,” Cuomo shot. “As the assemblyman calls them, they’re not a threat to public safety. As he says, they’re not anti queer. They are here to protect New Yorkers.

Mamdani tried to brush the comments off as old.

Cuomo said repeatedly to respect the police. via REUTERS

Mamdani tried to brush off his old comments. AP

“I have been clear time and time again that as much as Andrew Cuomo wants to bring up tweets from 2020, which is around the same time that he was sending seniors to their deaths in nursing homes, I am looking to work with polic

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