Mysonne’s appointment to Zohran Mamdani’s transition crew 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 crew’s legal authorized system committee. The transfer locations a onetime Bronx defendant who rebuilt his life by 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 City-based MC among the many members of the Committee on the Criminal Legal System. This is considered one of 17 advisory teams fashioned to supply coverage and personnel suggestions forward of Mamdani taking workplace subsequent month.

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

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

“We are proud that Until Freedom leaders have been chosen to serve on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team on committees for public safety and criminal justice respectively. This is a testament to our decades of work advocating on behalf of Black and Brown communities and our expertise in gun violence prevention, legislative advocacy and criminal justice reform. We are building something different.”

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

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

“It pushes New Yorkers who are living in the cold to another place where they will live in the cold,” he informed CBS News.

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

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

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