Mamdani on how abolishing prisons is consistent with the "Politics of Life"

Описание: A growing number of Democrats are calling for abolishing police and prison. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was asked about his endorsement of Darializa Avila Chevalier, who won the Democrat congressional nomination and will almost certainly be elected to congress in November, and who wants to abolish prison. Mamdani says that he supports her because she supports the politics of life," but won't there be more murders if there is no punishment for committing murder?

Transcript

Jonathan Karl with ABC News: …candidates you supported. One who knocked off an incumbent Democrat is uh Darlisa Vila Shaveier. She said some very controversial things including uh calling for the abolition of prisons. Couldn’t say whether or not somebody who had committed murder should be in prison. Called for open borders against all deportations, including those of violent criminals. Are those positions that the Democratic Party could win on nationally?[0:30]
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani: I think what the Democratic Party can win on nationally is a focus on working people. And I think that what I saw from Daria Lisa when I would walk the streets of her district was a focus on what she describes as a politics of life. She would talk about how we have to invest in babies, not bombs. She’s now going to represent what is one of the poorest districts in the United States of America. And what people in that district are exhausted by is a politics that has justified the spending of tens of billions of dollars in killing civilians overseas while working people are struggling just to do the basics.[1:03]
Karl: But but but how does that how does abolishing prisons or having open borders fit into that? I mean, do you see how that’s those are ideas that a lot of your Democrats that are warning about what happened here say are toxic. Most of America won’t go along with it. Are bad ideas that are dangerous ideas.[1:18]
Mamdani: I think what the focus of her race was, what the focus of her candidacy was, was about the struggle that working people are facing. And I think that we can have disagreements on policy positions. What we have to agree on is what are we fighting for and who are we fighting for? She showed that in her race and I think that many people will come to appreciate that in her leadership to come.[1:34]
Karl: So, we can disagree on something as basic as whether or not there should be prisons.[1:38]
Mamdani: There are your position… there. There are prisons and what we’re also showing in this city is that safety is not something that’s up for debate. It’s something that we’re actually delivering.