Dora Pekec
Role at the time: Mayoral spokesperson responding on behalf of City Hall to dismissal demands
Defended or excused
Statement summary
Pekec states City Hall's intention to retain Tisch while reviewing the previous day's events.
“Jessica Tisch is the police commissioner and there are no plans to change that”
Open source (opens in a new tab)DSA to Mamdani: Fire NYPD commissioner if ICE doesn't leave NYCDora Pekec's response to the dismissal demand and NYPD responses
Gothamist reports City Hall's response to NYC-DSA and Chevalier, with competing accounts of the police response.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The reference is Mamdani's continued retention of Tisch. Pekec affirms that decision without endorsing every aspect of the police response.