Zohran Mamdani hires security, citing 'new level' of threats in NYC mayor's race

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Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric rise from progressive state assemblymember to a leading candidate for mayor of New York City has been accompanied by an alarming rise in threats, his campaign said.

Mamdani’s campaign paid nearly $8,000 this month to Advance Security & Investigations, Inc., a New York-based security firm, campaign finance disclosures show. Other candidates for mayor in the Democratic primary — in the current race and 2021 contest — spent little or no money on security, according to interviews and reviews of campaign disclosures.

Mamdani said his concern has only been heightened by the killings of a Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in their home this past weekend. The alleged assassin shot and wounded another lawmaker and his wife in their home as well.

In an interview, Mamdani said racist and Islamophobic threats are not new for him but they recently reached a “new level of specificity.”




https://gothamist.com/news/zohran-mamdani-hires-more-security-citing-new-level-of-threats-in-nyc-mayors-race