Gov. Hochul won’t answer how her NYC mayor pick Zohran Mamdani should make amends to NYPD after anti-cop statements

Gov. Kathy Hochul refused to weigh in on mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s mumbling non-answer about how he plans to make amends to the thousands of NYPD cops for his history of anti-police statements.

Hochul ignored a Post reporter’s questions Tuesday about whether or not she thinks Mamdani still needs to publicly apologize to police – just over a week after she endorsed the socialist Queens Assemblyman.

Before her endorsement, Hochul said Mamdani should apologize to police for incendiary remarks, such as a 2020 Tweet where he called NYPD “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”

“I believe an apology is in order,” Hochul said previously at her own press conference touting state grants for law enforcement equipment.

Mamdani’s eventual response didn’t resemble much of an apology.

“The core of my politics is not a theatrics and where I speak to the media to convey what I’m speaking with officers at the core of this campaign has been those conversations,” Mamdani said during a rally in The Bronx last week.

But after an unrelated press conference Tuesday, Hochul dodged to see if the word salad response was enough.

Hochul left the podium at an unrelated event at Grand Central Terminal and said nothing as she walked away.

A spokesperson afterward claimed Hochul did not hear the question but wouldn’t say what the governor believed Mamdani should do from here.

Hochul said the day after her endorsement that she will be involved in the selection of the next police commissioner, if Mamdani wins in November.

Mamdani faces Republican Curtis Sliwa and independent candidates, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in the Nov. 4 general election.