New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked back a City Hall claim after the NYPD said it would not send officers to accompany his wife abroad, underscoring a dispute over security protocol.Spokesperson Dora Pekec had said an NYPD security detail would join Rama Duwaji on planned travel to Syria and Lebanon, both on the State Department’s Do Not Travel list, per an August 11 New York Post report.The NYPD countered that it does not deploy officers to level‑four advisory countries for non‑investigative reasons.Later Tuesday, Mamdani told PIX11, via Page Six, that there was a miscommunication and Duwaji would travel without an NYPD detail, with the September 20 trip overlapping the 81st United Nations General Assembly.
