Mamdani-backed candidate declines to say if murderers should get jail time
New York democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier this week declined to say if her House campaign supports sending murderers to jail.
TL;DR
- Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democratic socialist candidate for New York's 13th Congressional District, declined to say if her campaign supports jailing murderers.
- Chevalier, who describes herself as a "prison abolitionist," refused to directly answer the question four times.
- She stated that many of her public defender clients are poor, black, and brown New Yorkers accused of "crimes of poverty."
- Avila Chevalier has received an endorsement from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.