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On the recordSeptember 29, 2025
How can we describe the killing of a child once an hour, every hour for close to two years as a defense of our way of life? That is not a way of life that any of us practice in this city.
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Zohran Mamdani
Democratic · New York

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Mamdani questioned the morality of justifying violence as a defense of lifestyle in New York.

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