Before Zohran Mamdani’s first state Assembly campaign, he slammed New York City Council members for voting to close the Rikers Island jail complex because, in his eyes, they didn’t go far enough.
“This city’s much-heralded class of progressive electeds will take us only to the point of reform, not beyond,” Mamdani wrote in a 2019 X post.
Seemingly clarifying what he meant by “beyond,” he used the hashtag “NoNewJails” in the post.
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