A top staffer for Zohran Mamdani, the leading socialist candidate for New York City mayor, appeared to support naming a street after Luigi Mangione, who is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the Daily Caller reported.
Julian Gerson, the political director for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, expressed apparent admiration for a murder suspect and said he hoped to one day drive down a street bearing the man’s name.
In a Dec. 29 Facebook post, an account under Gerson’s name linked to an opinion piece that praised Mangione, who is charged with murder in the killing of 50-year-old Thompson on Dec. 4.
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