Mamdani has a history of criticizing the NYPD, but said on Wednesday that he doesn't plan to defund the department

Zohran Mamdani spent the last hours of his wedding celebration in Uganda huddled remotely with his team after learning of New York’s deadliest mass shooting of the last 25 years.

The killing of four people including a police officer in a Midtown Manhattan office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined.