Loud Riot

He wants a riot going on:

Mamdani stated: “While politicians & pundits condemn the uprising in Minneapolis from TV studios thousands of miles away, those at the center of it – even those who are hurting – understand why it’s happening. And why it has to happen. Black + brown solidarity will overcome white supremacy.”The post was a response to journalist Molly Hensley-Clancy, citing a restaurant business destroyed during the riots whose owner stated, “Let my building burn, justice needs to be served.”Critics say Mamdani’s statement shows explicit sympathy for violent rioters and a willingness to frame destruction as a justified tool of political expression.Mamdani has a long history of advocating for the abolition of police, so-called “decarcerations” of jail and prison inmates, and systemic dismantling of the criminal justice and law enforcement apparatus, stating in 2020, “White supremacy has many faces, from the police & prison systems in America to occupation & apartheid in Palestine.”The Uganda-born “Twelver” Muslim previously wrote that “as socialists, we believe people should not have to endure the violence & coercion of a criminal-legal system.”

When in doubt, riot...