Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch apologized to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s staff after her brother known as the long-time pro-Palestine advocate an “enemy of the Jewish people,” Mamdani mentioned Thursday.
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Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch apologized to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s staff after her brother known as the long-time pro-Palestine advocate an “enemy of the Jewish people,” Mamdani mentioned Thursday.
Mamdani mentioned Tisch, who will function his high cop, conveyed the apology on to his workers after experiences surfaced that her brother, Benjamin Tisch, made the comment throughout a charity occasion earlier within the week.
Throughout a Dec. 4 occasion at Stuyvesant Sq. Park, the incoming mayor mentioned that Commissioner Tisch had apologized to him for her brother’s remarks, and he was grateful to obtain the mea culpa.
“I appreciated it,” Mamdani mentioned Thursday afternoon in Stuyvesant Sq. Park of the apology, including that he intends to serve “each and every New Yorker, including Jewish New Yorkers,” when he takes workplace subsequent month.
The NYPD confirmed to New York News that an apology had been issued to the Mamdani staff. In a follow-up assertion, Tisch acknowledged the concern within the Jewish group in regards to the new mayor however expressed confidence that he would stay as much as his phrase about defending Jewish New Yorkers.
“I understand the fear in the Jewish community,” Tisch mentioned. “My sincere belief is that the mayor-elect will live up to the commitment he’s made to be a mayor for all New Yorkers, including the Jewish community.”
The remarks come simply weeks after town’s high cop agreed to stay answerable for the NYPD as the brand new administration takes workplace on Jan. 1. Mamdani had expressed repeated curiosity in retaining Tisch previous to an settlement being struck, regardless of members of the Tisch household contributing greater than $1.3 million to Repair the Metropolis, a brilliant PAC that opposed his candidacy.
Mamdani had beforehand dismissed the prolonged household’s political affiliation, saying, “I am not hiring the family.”
