Domestic violence survivors blast Mamdani for past comments opposing police responses to domestic violence

Domestic violence survivors and advocates are speaking out after far-left New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani s past comments opposing sending police to respond to domestic violence resurfaced Police do not create safety there are so numerous responsibilities we ve given to police that frankly should have nothing to do with their departments if somebody is jaywalking if somebody is surviving going through domestic violence there are so multiple different different situations that would be far better handled by people trained to deal with those specific situations as opposed to an individual with a gun Mamdani stated on the Immigrantly podcast in July the Washington Free Beacon revealed Mamdani s comments came shortly after George Floyd s death engulfed the nation in a fever of anti-police riots and sentiment among the left Domestic violence advocates are sounding the alarm about Mamdani s comments warning that if the left-wing mayoral candidate follows through on these policies lives could be endangered There s a lot of humans who are casualties in the city of New York and they need protection because sometimes it s a matter of life and death They re hiding in the bathroom with their children and they need someone to come at once Michelle Esquenazi founder of the Casualties Rights Improvement Council described Fox News Digital FORMER DEM ADVISOR SAYS HE'S 'ALMOST SPEECHLESS' AT MAMDANI'S 'ENRAGING' ANTI-COP COMMENTS LAMENTS NYC CRIMEThe democratic socialist who was first elected to the New York state legislature in has a long history of calls to defund the police In Mamdani called to defund the police multiple times and called the NYPD wicked and corrupt Mamdani s campaign website calls for the establishment of the Department of District Safety which his website proposes will take on certain responsibilities presently delegated to the police However at a mayoral debate last month Mamdani denied that he would defund the police and vowed instead to work with the police and use mental physical condition counselors and social workers to address homelessness and the mentally ill For Esquenazi Mamdani s past comments hit home because she contends the NYPD saved her when her ex-husband attacked her in their Queens home while she was pregnant in I called and they came running They made sure that me and my children and I was pregnant at the time were safe One of the officers took us to a back bedroom and made sure that we were calmed down and made sure that we had what we needed They separated him from the situation straightaway and essentially saved our lives Esquenazi explained Fox News Digital If Mamdani puts in any sort of barrier to casualties getting immediate help from NYPD then multiple lives will be lost she disclosed Jennifer Harrison also a domestic violence survivor and executive director of the Casualties Rights Restructuring Council and founder of Casualties Rights New York echoed Esquenazi s warnings that women s lives would be in danger if the NYPD was prevented from responding to domestic violence calls It would definitely make women less safe we ve already tried their experiments and they re failing epically These are all smokescreens and pipe dreams Harrison informed Fox News Digital Harrison noted that she needed police fearing for her life when her boyfriend had a mental soundness situation in in which he smashed her and her son s iPads and threatened to kill himself while preventing them from leaving their Suffolk County NY home RESURFACED VIDEO SHOWS ZOHRAN MAMDANI SAYING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WOULDN T BE A PRIORITY FOR THE NYPDThe police brought her boyfriend to the hospital seeing he needed mental physical condition cure but the hospital discharged him mere hours later However a cop was notified and tipped off Harrison that her enraged boyfriend was on his way back home giving her and her son time to escape That cop ostensibly saved my life I don t think we should be playing Russian roulette with the lives of domestic violence casualties Harrison explained Fox News Digital Republican candidate for mayor Curtis Sliwa blasted Mamdani when reached for comment by Fox News Digital Women will die and children will die He has no idea what goes on he s either hopelessly naive or he hates the police so much he doesn t care Sliwa described Fox News Digital Sonia Ossorio Executive Director of National Organization for Women NYC noted that women s lives are at stake and she pointed out that having unarmed first responders attend to domestic violence situations could put them in harm s way The number one cause of death and major injury for women in this country is done at the hands of their intimate partner So fast response by law enforcement that is trained and has the guidance to intervene in major situations is critical she recounted Fox News Digital What are we saying about women s safety about the endemic of domestic violence if we are even hinting at the idea that police response is not a priority A scrutiny published by the World Journal of Psychiatry revealed that domestic violence is the leading cause of homicide death for women and determined that of women experience domestic partner violence which is often called intimate partner violence Mamdani and two of his rivals in the NYC mayoral race Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo did not return Fox News Digital s request for comment