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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pointed the finger at his own City Hall staff after the NYPD flatly contradicted his office's claim that officers would accompany his wife on a trip to two countries the State Department warns Americans not to visit. The sequence unfolded over roughly twelve hours. Late Monday, Mamdani's spokeswoman Dora […] The post Mayor Mamdani blames staff after NYPD publicly denies his wife a police escort to Syria and Lebanon appeared first on American Almanac .
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pointed the finger at his own City Hall staff after the NYPD flatly contradicted his office's claim that officers would accompany his wife on a trip to two countries the State Department warns Americans not to visit. The sequence unfolded over roughly twelve hours. Late Monday, Mamdani's spokeswoman Dora Pekec told the New York Post that the mayor's wife, 29-year-old Syrian-American artist Rama Duwaji, planned to travel to Syria and Lebanon to visit family, and that her NYPD security detail would go with her. Pekec's statement was specific and unambiguous: "Upon the strong recommendation of the NYPD, the first lady's security detail will be joining her when she travels to visit family in Syria and…Open