Mysonne’s appointment to Zohran Mamdani’s transition group hyperlinks his hard-earned advocacy journey with public security reform.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani pushed his public security agenda into bolder territory this week by naming rapper-turned-activist Mysonne Linen to his transition group’s felony authorized system committee. The transfer locations a onetime Bronx defendant who rebuilt his life via advocacy on the middle of a sweeping effort to reshape how New York handles public security.

Mamdani’s transition web site listened the New York Metropolis-based MC among the many members of the Committee on the Felony Authorized System. That is one in every of 17 advisory teams shaped to supply coverage and personnel suggestions forward of Mamdani taking workplace subsequent month.

Mysonne, together with comrade Tamika Mallory, publicly embraced the position on Instagram, writing: “GODS WORK!!”

Their group, Till Freedom, issued a broader assertion celebrating the appointment as each symbolic and earned.

“We’re proud that Till Freedom leaders have been chosen to serve on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition group on committees for public security and felony justice respectively. It is a testomony to our a long time of labor advocating on behalf of Black and Brown communities and our experience in gun violence prevention, legislative advocacy and felony justice reform. We’re constructing one thing totally different.”

Mamdani has pushed ahead a $1.1 billion proposal for a Division of Group Security, which might route non-violent and mental-health-related 911 calls away from NYPD response and towards educated civilian groups. The plan maintains total NYPD staffing.

Mamdani has additionally vowed to halt NYPD-led sweeps of homeless encampments, arguing the follow solely displaces unhoused residents with out addressing the necessity for secure shelter.

“It pushes New Yorkers who’re dwelling within the chilly to a different place the place they may reside within the chilly,” he informed CBS Information.

On the jail entrance, Mamdani maintains that closing Rikers Island stays important, although he has stated the present administration has made town’s unique 2027 deadline “functionally unimaginable.”

The addition of Mysonne, Mallory and others with a novel grassroots New York Metropolis expertise will assist Mamdani steer town’s subsequent period of felony justice coverage.

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