Dem NYC mayor candidate Maya Wiley trying to cut $1billion from NYPD despite her home being protected by security guards
A CANDIDATE for New York City mayor endorsed by Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been slammed for calls to defund the police while her own $2.7million home has a private patrol.
Democrat Maya Wiley, a former counsel to outgoing mayor Bill de Blasio, wants to cut $1billion from the but has been accused of "pandering for votes."
Yet claims that her life partner Harlan Mandal, 58, began paying the annual fees to Prospect Park South Charitable Trust again without her knowledge.
The mother-of-two says that Handal, CEO of the nonprofit Media Development Investment Fund, has felt nervous on the streets since being badly beaten in a 2001 mugging.
On Saturday, she had slammed arrests made in Washington Square Park after protesters broke a new 10pm curfew for the area following reports of drug use and large gatherings.
He said that Wiley's plan to take $1billion from the NYPD budget would “be dangerous to our children and our families.”
On Saturday, he also slammed Wiley and AOC, claiming they “want to slash the police department budget and shrink the police force at a time when black and brown babies are being shot in our streets.”
Wiley has also been blasted as a hypocrite for calling school programs for talented kids "racially discriminatory" despite one of her daughters going to an academy for the gifted and the other to a $51,000-a-year private school, DailyMail.com reports.
Primaries for the New York City mayor will be held on June 22.
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The Democratic nominee will be favorite to win.
Adams, Andrew Yang, and Kathryn Garcia are in the top tier but the race still remains wide open.